The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1891-08-13
A MILLION A YEAR,
Lottery and Prize Schemes Used to
Sell Alum and Ammonia Baking
Powders.

Lottery and Prize Schemes Used to
Sell Alum and Ammonia Baking
Powders.
A New York concern, manufacturers
OF an ammonia baking powder boasts
that it's yearly profits are over a mil
lion dollars. While perhaps, none OF
the makers of alum powders individ-
ually can show so large earnings yet
their profits are enormous.
A business so profitable, will al
ways attract to itself those whose
greed will cause them to utterly disre-
gard the effect their traffic may have
upon the health or life of others.
Alum bakingpowders are introduced
largely by gifts, prizes and lottery
schemes. A piece of glassware or
china, q child's wagon, sled a pewter
spoon or some other article of attrac-
tive appearance, but of small intrinsic
value or cost is given with each pur-
chase or number is attached to the
can which entities the customer to a
similarly numbered article or to a
prize of some kind. 1t is in some such
way as this that the trade in alum and
ammonia baking powders, which has
now attained such giant proportions
and their consumption by the public
which has reached On extent which is
| truly alarming.
The highest authorities of all coun-
tries condemn the use ofalum in bread
without reserve. In America the most
distinguished physicians, chemists and
hygienists have declared that the traf-
tic in alum baking powders should be
suppressed by law. In England and
France where the subject ofpure food,
and it's effects upon the system, has
been more fully considered and made
the subject of extended experiments
by the scientists, so serious a matter
is the use of alum in bread or other
food considered to be, that most
stringent laws have been enacted to
prevent it, These laws arerigldly en-,
forced, and the sale OF alum baking pow,
ders would not be permitted for al
hour. Any one who attempted to
make them for use in food, or attempt.
to use them for raising bread, biscuit
or cake would suffer severe penalties
The i'll effect upon the system Of
food raised by alum baking powders
are the more dangerous because o.
their insidious character. 1t would be
less dangerous to the community were
it, fatal at once, for then such fooC
would beavOided; but their deleteriOus
action because imperceptible at first il
no less certain.
The puckering effect which alum ha:
when taken in the mouth is familiar
to everyone. Physicians say this sam,
effect is produced by it upon the deli
cate coats of the stomach and intes
tines.
What housewife would take HON,
to her family can of alum or am
monia baking powder if she knew it
Such powders not only undermine tn
system, but it is pointed out tina
ammonia taken into the system il
even infnetisimal doses day after day
imparts to the complexion a salloV
and blotched appearance.
1t is safe to discard all baking pow
ders sold with a prize or gift.
What mlsnOmer are the word
Absolutely Pure" as applied to bak
ing powders two of the largest selIin
brands, one made from alum, tn
other containing ammonia and bot
Of these drugged baking powders hav
stamped upon their labels and Gil
culars these words absolutely pure, a
a matterof fact they are "Absolutel
Poor" as shown by official examine
tons.