Just Whistle!

I bought this bottle thinking (mistakenly) that the Hobart Historical Society didn't already have any like this. They did. So now they have another.


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The bottle has "Hobart Ind" stamped on the bottom:



Whistle was an orange-flavored soda introduced to mass marketing sometime circa 1920; sources vary on exactly when. This source says 1920s; another source says the soda was formulated in 1916 but not sold until 1925. However, I have found a flurry of ads in Indiana newspapers in 1919, like this one:


Kokomo Daily Tribune, Aug. 20, 1919.

Here's one from a local paper in 1921:


Lake County Times (Hammond), Apr. 22, 1921.

And here's a little ad from 1957 in Terre Haute:


Terre Haute Tribune, Sept. 23, 1957.

I have no idea when Whistle soda ceased production.

I can't really date this bottle, either. The Hobart Historical Society's display dates a similar bottle to around 1940, but an online source dates another to circa 1926.

The agonizingly slow process of reading microfilm may yield more information.