Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1891 — A FIGHT FOR LIFE. [ARTICLE]

A FIGHT FOR LIFE.

SHALL WE DRIVE SLOW POISON FROM OUR BREAKFAST TABLE? ALUM AND AMMONIA IN O UR BREADA nuisance that troubled England fifty years ago is now rapidly spreading in this country, that is putting Alum im the bread we eat. This question is oausing a great deal of discussion at the present moment, as it is rev. aled that alum is oeing used as a substitute for oream of tarter in baking powders. A story is told that a very large percentage of the baking powders sold on the market contain either alum or ammonia, and many of them contain both these pernioious drugs. Much timely alarm is felt at the whole sale use of alum in bread, biscuit and pastry. To young children, growing girls, persons o weakly frame, alum Dread eaten morning, noon and evening is the most harmful. It is the small quantities taken at every meal that do the mischief. Alum is oheap, costing but two or three cenls a pound while oream of tartar costs 300, and the high prioe of oream of tartar has led cheap baking powder to b# made of alum. If the reader wants to know something of the corrosive qualities of alum let him touch a piece to his tongue then reflect how it acts on the tender delioate coats of the stomach.

Following is a list oompiled by the Scientific American, of the alum and am' monia baking powders that have already been tested. ATLANTIC & PACIFIO.fjBOYAL. COOK’S FAVORITE. , ] SOIOTA. CROWN. SILVER SPOON. CRYSTAL. SILVER STAR. DAISY. SNOW DRIFT. DAVIS O. K. SOVEREIGN. DRY YEAST. STAB. GEM. STATE. GLOBE. STRNDABD. KENTON. SUNFLOWEB. PEARSON'S. WASHINGTON. PERFECTION. WINDSOB. PEERLESS. ZIPP’S GRAPE PURITY. CRYSTAL. There are, in addition to the foregoing list from the Scientific American, a number of suoli powders sold in the western that were not fonnd in the eastern stores. Following is the list to date: CALUMET, Contains Alum. (Calumet Baking Powder Co.; Chicago.) FOREST CITY, Contains Ammonia Alum (Vouwic Bros., Cleveland.) CHICAGO YEAST, Contains Ammonia Alum. (Chapman * Smith Co., Chioago.) BON BON, Contains Alum. HOTEL. Contains Ammonia Alum. (J. C. Grant Baking Powder Co., Chicago) UNRIVALED, Contains Alum, (Spragues, Warner* Griswold, Chicago.) ONE SPOON, TAYLOR’S, Ammonia * Alum. (Taylor Mfg. Co., St. Louis ) YARN ALL’S, Contains Alum. (YarnallMfg. Co., St. Louis.) SHAW’S SNOW PUFF, Contains Alum. (Merchants’ Mfg. AsscoiationJSt. Louis.) DODSON & HILS, Contains Alum. (Dodson & Hils, St. Louis.) SHEPARD’S, Contains Ammonia Alum. (Wm, H. Shephard, St. Louis.) BAIN’S, Contains Alum. (Meyer-Bain Mfg. Co.. St. Louis.) MONARCH. Contains Ammonia Alum, (Reid. Murdoch* Co., Chicago.) SNOW BALL, Contains Alum. (Bengal Coffee* Spioe Mills, Ohioago.) GIANT, Contains Alum. MILK. Contains Alum.

(W* F. McLaughlin & Co., Chioago.) ECHO, Contains Alunrt (Spencer Bluing Paddle Co., Chioago.) KALBFELL’&FURITY, Contains Alum. (Kalbfeil Mfg. Co., Chicago.) RISING SUN, Contains Ammonia. (Phoenix Chemical Works, Chicago.) WHITE ROSE, Contains Ammonia Alum (Globe Coffee & Spice Mills Minneapolis.) WOOD’S ACME, Contains Ammonia. (Thos. Wood & Co., Phil delphia.) ANDREWb’ PEARL, Contains Ammonia (C. E. Andrews & Co., Milwaukee.) HARRIES’FAVORITE, Contains Alum. I(H. H. Harries, Minneapolis.) FIDELITY, Contains Alum. SOLAR, Contains Alum. (Sherman Bros., Chioago ) PUTNAM’S BEST, Contains Alum. (Wells, Putnam * Co., Chioago.) CHINA “T” HOUSE, Contains Alum. □7(Noah McDowell, St. Paul, Minn.) TWIN CITY, Contains Alum. (J. K. Ferguson, Minneapolis, Minn.) HERCULES. Contains Ammonia. (Hercules Baking Powder Co., San Francisco.) CLIMAX, Contains Ammonia. (Climax Baking Powder Co. Indianapolis)