The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-10-22
A FIGHT FOR LIFE.
SHALL WE DRIVE SLOW POISON FROM OUR
BREAKFAST TABLE?

Alum and Ammonia In Our Bread.
A nuisance that troubled England fifty years
ago is now rapidly spreading in this country,
that Ia putting alum In the bread we eat This
question is causing great deal of discussion at
the present moment, a. IL Is revealed that alum
10 being used az substitute for cream Of tartar
In baking powders story is told that a very
large percentage of the baking powders sold on
the market contail either alum or ammonia
and manv OF them contain both these pernicious
drugs. Much timely alarm Is felt at the whole
sale use OF alum in bread, biscuit and pastry
To young children, growing girls, persons OF
weakly frame, alum bread eaten morning, noon
and evening 10 the most harmful 1t is the
small quantities taken at every meal that do the
mischief. Alum is cheap, costing but or 8
cents pound, while cream of tartar costs 80
cents, and the high price of cream of tartar has
leo cheap baking powder to be made of alum.
If the reader wants to know something OF the
corrosive qualities of alum let him touch piece
to his tongue then reflect how it acts on the ten
der, delicate coats of the stomach
Following 10 list compiled by the Scientific
american OF the alum and ammonia baking pow
ders that have already been tested:
ATLANTIC PACIFIC, ROYAL,
COOKS FAvoRITE, scIoTo,
CROWN, SILVER SPOON.
CRYSTAL, SILVER STAR
DAISY, sNowDRIFr,
DAVIS o. Z. SOVEREIGN,
DRY YEAST, STAR,
GEM, STATE,
GLOBE, standard
KENToN, sUNFLowRR,
PEARsoN's, WASHINGTON
PERFECTION, WINDSOR,
PEERLESS, zIPPs GRAPE,
PURITY, CRYSTAL
There are, 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:
sIa$ss Baking Co. G ssisssa 1,on'
youwie Bros, Clevsland.)
CHICAGO YEAST, Contains Ammonia Alum.
BON p6 Chapman Smith Co.. c adcss;n,. ,,n
! 9; g E. Grant Baking Powder Co, chicseoS cn'
~ ssp.sgas., Warner : eri.wold. chic.g oun
ONE SPOON, TAYLoR's, Ammonia Alum.
x.ny IaylOr Mig. Co, St Louis)
$50 Wsrnall Mfg. Co., s.. Lou ds1'n' Alum
noI {IMs,ehanss Mig. Association, St Eonis5
s tpod.on & Hills, 81. Lonis5 SA'n' Alum.
Dive a@n H Sheppard, St 4 Iouis'9 Alum
N : Meyer-Bain Mfg. Co., St Ioui..5 Alum
syow / (RsId, Murdoch { Co. chicasoj alum
bengal Coffee Spice Minis, chieaso 1lom'
GIANT, Contains Alum.
n ~ wv. F. Mclaughlin Co.. t Chicago alum
Spencer Bluing Paddle Co., chieago 1ium
KALBFELLS PURITY, Contains Alum.
iKalbfell Mfg. Co., Chicago.)
N, Ammonia
lPhenix Chemical Works. Chicago.]
WHITE ROSE, Contains Ammonia Alum
GLOBE Coffee d Spice Mills, Minneapolis)
(Thos Wood & Co., PhiladelphiaJ
ANDREWS PEARL Contains Ammonia.
e: F, Andrews & Co, NiIwaukee.J
FIDELITY s. H. Hairless Minns' GSn;.Iu. Alum.
SOLAR, Contains Alum.
wells, Putnam & Co. Chicago, '
- Noah Mcdowell, St. Paul, MINI,
q K Ferguson, Minneapolis, MINI. 1
lHersnle, Baking Power Co, San Ffanciscol
CLIMAX, Contains Ammonia
(Climax Baking Power Co., IndianapoIis.)
DR.. Prices Cream Baking Powder is reported
by all authorities free from Ammonia, Alum,
Lime or any other audulterant In fact the
purity of this ideal powder has never been
questioned.