Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1891 — FIGHT FOR LIFE [ARTICLE]

FIGHT FOR LIFE

E hall we Drive Slow Poison From onr Breakfast Table. ■ ““ K i Alum and Ammonia in our Bread. A nusiance that has troubled England fifty years ago is now rapidly spreading in this country, Jhat is putting Alum in the bread we eat. This question is causing a great deal of discussion at the present moment as it is revealed that alum is being us6d as a substitute for cream of tartar 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 pernicious drugs. Much timely alarm is felt at the wholesale use of alum in bread ; biscuit and pastry. To young children, growing girls, persons of weakly frame, alum bread eaten morning, noon and evening is the most harmful. It is the small quantities taken at every meal that do the mischief. Alum is cheap, costing but two or throe cents a pound while cream of tartar costs 30c, and the high price of cream of tartar has led cheap powder to be made df 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 delicate coats of the stomach. Following is a list compiled by the. Scientific American, of the alum and ammonia baking powders that have already been tested. ATLANTIC A PACIFIC. ROYAL. COOKS S FAVORITE. SCIOTO. CROIVN. SIIA’ER SPOON. - CRYSTAL. SILVER STAR. DAISY. SNOWDRIFT. DAVIS’ O. T", SOVEREIGN. DRY YEAST STAR. GEJI. STATE. GLOBE. . STANDARD. KENTON. SUNFLOWER. pearson’s. Washington, perfection; ’ Windsor. PEERLESS. ZIPP’S GRATE. PURITY. CRYSTAL. in addition to the foregoing list from the Scientific American, a number of such powders sold in the western that were not found in the eastern stores. Following is the list to date: CALUMET - - Contains Alum. (Calumet Baking Powder Co., Chicago.) FOREST CITY - Contains Ammonia Alum. (Vouwie Bros., Cleveland.) CHICAGO YEAST - Contains Ammonia Alum. (Clapman <fc Smith Co., Chicago.) 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.) YARNALL’S Contains Alum. (Yarnall Mfg. Co,, St. Louis.) SHAW’S SNOW PUFF - Contains Alum. (Mercantile Mfg. Association, St. Louis.) DODSON & HIL’S - Contains Alum. (Dodson & Hil’s, St. Louis.) SHEPARD’S - Contains Ammonia Alum. (Wm. H. Shephard, St. Louis.) BAIN’S - - - Contains Alum. (Meyer-BaitrMfg. Co., St. Louis.). MONARCH - Contains Ammonia Alum. (Reid, Murdoch & Co., Chicago.) SNOW BALL - Contains Alum. (Bengal Coffee & Spice Mills, Chicago.) GIANT - - - Contains Alum. MILK -*• - - Contains Alum. (W. F. McLaughlin & Co., Chicago.) ECHO - - - Contains Alum. (Spencer Blueing Paddle Co., Chicago.) KALBFELL’S PURITY Contains Alum. (Ealbfell Mfg. Co., RISING SUN - Contains Ammonia. (Phoenix Chemical Works, Chicago.) WHITE ROSE - Contains .Ammonia Alum. (Globe Coffee «fc Spice Mills, Minneapolis.) WOOD’S ACME 3 - Contains Ammonia. (Thos. Wood & Co., Philadelphia.) ANDREWS’ PEARL - Contains Ammonia. (C. E. Andrews & Co., Milwaukee.) HARRIES’ FAVORITE Contains Alnm, (H. H. Harries, Minneapolis.) FIDELITY - - Contains Alum. SOLAR - - Contains Alum. (Sherman Bros., Chicago.) PUTNAM’S BEST - Contains Alum. (Wells. Putnam <fc Co.. Chicago.) CHINA -T” HOUSE - Contains Alum. (Noah McDowell, St. Paul, Minn.) TWIN CITY - - Contains Alum. (J. K. Ferguson, Minneapolis, Minn.) HERCULES - Contains Ammonia. (Hercules F>aking Powder Co., San Francisco.) . CLIMAX - Contains Ammonia. (Climax Baking Powder Co., Indianapolis.) Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder is reported by all authorities as free from Ammonia, Alum, Lime, or any other adulterant. In fact, the purity of this ideal powder has never been questioned. AND SHK DID. •What is your fortune my pretty maid?’ ’ •‘My face is my fortune, sir,” she said. • Then I can’t marry you, my pretty maidl’ •You can’t! Then I’ll sue you, sir I” she said. —New York Sunb The carpenters strike in London is in its twenty-first week. About thirty-six hundred men are out, and over one hundred and filly thous and dollars has been pail l Lorn the strike fund. Governor Russell, of Massahcusetts, has appointed Miss May Ha* hey assistant labor commissioner ol the State. She was blacklisted for two years by the Pacific Mills for her prominent participation in the strike pt those mills. Tommy—‘Tm going to tell ma you pushed me overboard.” Little Johnnie —“You’d better not.” Tommy—- “ She'll lick me if I say I fell over.” Little Johnnie—“ That’s what you'd j better tell her. If you put the blame I on me Til lick you and Til hurt you more than your mother will.” A musical’ note —Miss Clef—“ What is that that Miss D’Howlar is singing—isn’t it mezzo-soprano?” Mr. Bowler (who lacks musical education) —“Well, that may be the German for it. but in English we call it ‘Comin* Thro’ the Rye.’ Awfully old song, you knowthought you'd have known iL” - ■ ' : j - . •. • •