Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1882-08-16
PLAIN TALK.

AnoYo,cs Pearl Baking Po,cder Company
makes Statements that admits Of no doubts
on the subject and easily understood By inter.
oSted parties.
We have never considered ourselves
selfconstituted philanthropists like the
Royal Baking Powder Co., to make invid-
ious comparisons Of our competitors
goods through the press, or to pay chem
lists TO make them for us, or to allude to
them by name in concealed advertisements
in order to increase the sale of Andrews
Pearl Baking Powder.
We do not find any high-minded, first
class, reputable manufacturers in any
kind of business, like Kingsford, or Dur
yeas Starch Company, or Rabbits Soap
Company, rcsorting to this method of
seeking trade, which would bring upon
thcm, as.it always does, the scorn and
contempt of every honest business man in
the country.
The Royal Baking Powder Co., still ! per-
sists in publishing that Andrews Bak-
ing Powder contains alum" having been
so decided as they say, by DR.. Love, gov
ernment chemist for the Indian depart
ment, although we stated through the
press, some time ago, that we made and
sold two kinds of baking powder, of diff
fercnt qualities as the trade might de-
mand, making no misrepresentation when
the goods were sold. But the Royal Bak-
ing Powder Co. takes this method of in
ducing the public TO infer that the cream
tartar powder sold under our brand of
Andrews Pearl is the one referred to UNI
der the ambiguous form of Andrews
Baking Powder contains alum" and sus-
tanned by the analysis of the government
chemist for the Indian department, in
stead of giving the NAMES of our BRANDS
which are prominently printed upon our
labels.
In order TO settle this question perma-
ncntly and ascertain IL our baking powder
known, and sold, under the brand of An
drewsPearl is meant, we make this public
challenge.
Challenge.
81 900 that Andrews Pearl Baking
Powder is free from alum, but the princi-
pal ingredient Is cream tartar and Is not
injurious.
$1,000 that biscuits made from Andrews
Pearl Baking Powder are perfectly health
full and free from deleterious substances.
$1,000 that Andrews Pearl Baking Pow
der does not, and never did, contain alum
or injurious ingredients.
$1,000 that DR.. Mott neither is, nor ever
has been, regularly authorized commits
stoned government chemist for the Indian
department, as stated by the Royal Bak-
ing Powder Company.
81 600 that DR.. Love neither is, nor ever
has been, the regularly authorized COM
missioned government chemist for the In
dian department, as stated by the Royal
Baking Powder Company.
81 900 that there Is not, nor ever has
lan l. L A. h.
eminent as regularly authorized com
missioned chemist for the Indian depart
madt.
This challenge as q whole to be accept
cd within ten days from this date, July
10Th, 1882, each party to select chemist,
and these two third, and the decision Of
the majority TO be final. The analysis to
be conducted publicly in Milwaukee, be-
fore DIR. Martin, health commissioner, and
the powder to be purchased by him in
open market among the leading grocers
in Milwaukee or Chicago. The unsuc-
cessful party to pay all expenses Of the
public test.
We make this challenge In no boastful
spirit but to definitely state our willing
ness to test the merits of Andrews Pearl
Baking Powder rs to its purity and ris-
ing qualities.
@. Z. ANDREWS h Co.,
Manufacturers of Andrews Pearl Baking
Powder,
Milwaukee and Chicago.
Complimentary
Unexpected but Apprecla ed.
DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL SCIENCE.
STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, WHITEWATER, WIS
q. +. ANDREWS " Co., July II, 1892
Milwaukee, Wis
Gentlemen IL notice in Tuesdays
Chicago Times, n communication from
you in regard to the Pearl Baking Pow
der. beg leave TO say that the Pearl, as
well as many other brands of different
manufacturers, was last spring analysed
in the larbartory of this institution and
found to contain no alum or other harm.
full substances. The sample used was
purchased in open market; the analysis
was made in the interest OF truth, and
not of your firm or any other and this
communication is simply for justice, and
II 1t has any weight 1t will be from its
disintercstedness.
Yours Respectfully,
w. s. JOHNSON.