"Raisin' cane!"  From Purple Parrot, 1935.

A candy elephant.  From The Book of Knight and Barbara by David Starr Jordan, 1899. 

Today's candy animals exercising are from The Moon Prince by Richard Kendall Munkittrick, 1893.

Her best friend is a lollipop.  From The Hygienic Pig and Other Stories by Janet Fiield Heath, 1925.

From John Dough and the Cherub by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John Neill, 1906.

Reblog if the squirrel of temptation has corrupted you with the lure of ice cream, candies, tobacco, pipes, or billards.  From the University of Wisconsin's 1921 yearbook. 

Why did the confectioners go to France?

To celebrate pastille day.

(Thanks, Mike!)

"Candy Jim."  From Handicraft for Handy Girls by Albert Neely Hall and Dorothy Perkins, 1916.

Here's a precursor to the Candy Land board game.  From The Judge, 1917.

"The candy animals exercising."  From Harper's Young People, 1887.

"Giving one another taffy," from Grip, 1884.

You've heard about the "war on Christmas," but Christmas began fighting back in 1917, as we see in Cartoons Magazine.  This will also be of interest: The Collected Lost Meanings of Christmas.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to reveal the postcard version.

"The great lozenge-maker."  From Punch, 1858.

Here's a precursor to Pez candy dispensers, from 1907.