The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-12-25
AVOID BAKING POWDERS
That Leave Rochelle Salts In til
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That Leave Rochelle Salts In the
Dread.
The dishonorable and undermined
methods of the Price Baking Powder
Co.. in their attacks on Calumet Bak-
ing Powder ran only be explained by
the fact that they r uneasy at the
growing popularity of Calumet Baking
Powder. An article has recently been
going the rounds of the papers in
which Calumet Baking Powder is at
tackled, with a number Of others. The
careful reader will see that it is the
Calumet that they are after. We are
reliably informed that it is a paid adj
vertisement published by the Price
Baking Powder Co. This method of
advertising is resorted to by this COM
pany to injure the Calumet" and to
intimidate the people into paying ex.
OrbitaEt prices for their goods, and to
divert attention from the fact that
food prepared from their baking pow
der contains large quantities of Ro-
chelle Salts.
In an interview with the manufact-
erers of Calumet Baking Powder they
stated that food prepared from their
product was entirely free from RO-
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any injurious substance.
DIR. Prices baking powder. according
to analysis, contains abcit % per cent
Of b~i-carbonate of soda: which will re-
Quire 62.6 per cent Of cream of tartar
for naturalization, and the two will
make over 93 per cent Of Rochelle
Salts, such as is found in the drug
stores. One heaping teaspooEful Of
baking powder weighs about 200
grains, and will make ii ounces Of
bread or - good-sized biscuits. In
these II biscuits, then, we have the
enormous quantity of 1856 grains Of
Rochelle Salts. With an average meal,
at which three biscuits r eaten. one
would take into the system 46 1-2
grains Of Rochelle Salts.
Rochelle Salts is the active ingredi-
ent of Seidlitz powders, and is a most
excellent medicine in its place: but it
is a medicine, and not an article Of
food, and the daily consumption of
from so to $50 grains will seriously de-
range the stomach, bowels and kid
neys. When we consider the residue
left in the food, DIR. Prices baking
powder is simply a Seidlitz powder d.
luted with starch. Below is given the
opinion Of an Eastern medical author
ity on this constant dosing with Ro-
chelle Salts:
DR.. A. Warner Shepard, formerly
health officer in Brooklyn. said: II
have not the slightest doubt that the
mental and physical health of thou
sands is permanently injured by the
excessive use of Rochelle Salts. in i'm
pure beer, bread and ether forms of
food and drink. 1t is certainly a fact
or in the alarming increase Of Bright's
disease of the kidneys and similar com.
plants. 1t irritates the stomach, bow
els and kidneys, and may, therefore,
produce the most unfortunate results"
Patents Issued.
List of patents issued last week to
Northwestern inventors:
Andrew ]. and H. w. Cleland, Man
kato, Mimi, do%uble-grade grain clean
er; Hermann c. Dittbenner. Minneap-
| oils, MIMI, lever shield: James c. Fer
guson, Minneapolis, Mimi. acetylene
gas generator; Leo H. Goodkind, III.
M. E.ssington and H. f.. Bartlett, st.
Paul, MIMI. button-feeding apparatus
for sewing machines; William c.
Humphrey, Jamestown, n. D.. dress
and mud guard: Henry Klossner, Win
throp, anG j. Sciuch. Round Grove,
Mimi, cutter bar; Edward W. Simms,
Fort Ass;naboine. Mont, track clean
err: Thomas H. WilliuiGS, Huron. $.
D.. potato planter.
Merwin,, LOthrop & johnson, Patent
Attorneys, $40, Pioneer Press Bldg,
st. Iaul, MINI.