The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-12-31
AVOID BAKING POWDERS

AVOID BAKING POWDERS
That Leave Rochelle Salts In the Bread.
They are Injurious.
The dishonorable and underhanded
methods of the Price Baking Powder
20. in their attacks on Calumet Bak-
Ing Powder can only be explained by
ne fact that they ave 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 number of others. The
careful reader will see that it is the
Calumet" that they are after. We
are reliably informed that it is paid
advertisement 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-
orbitant 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 the manufacturers
Of Calumet Baking Powder stated that
Food prepared from their product was
entirely free from Rochelle Salts,
Alum, Ammonia, Lime or any inju-
rious substance
DR.. Prices baking powder, accord
ing to analysis, contains about % per
cent of bicarbonate Of soda, which will
require 62.6 per cent of cream of tar
tar for naturalization and the two will
make over SO per cent of Rochelle
salts such as is found in the drug
stores. One heaping teaspoonful OF
baking powder weighs about 200
grains, and will make Il ounces Of
bread or IL good sized biscuits. In
these twelve biscuits then we have
the enormous quantity Of 1856 grains
of Rochelle salts. With an average
meal, at which three biscuits are eaten,
one would take into the system 46h
grains of Rochelle salts.
Rochelle salts is the active ingredi-
ent of Seidlitz powders and is most
excellent medicine in its place, but 1T
is medicine and not an article OF
food, and the daily consumption OF
from so to $50 grains will seriously
derange the stomach, bowels and kid
neys. When we consider the residue
left in the food, Dr. Prices baking
powder is simply a Seidlitz powder,
diluted with starch. Below is given
the opinion of an eastern medical au-
@,;&
Rochelle salts.
DR.. A. Warner Shepard, formerly
health officer in Brooklyn, said: II
have not the slightest doubt tat 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 other forms of
food and drink 1t is certainly fac
tor in the alarming increase Of
Brights disease of the kidneys and
similar complaints. 1t irritates the
stomach, bowels and kidneys and may
therefore produce the most unfor-
tunate results"
A Point In Icuclre.
Il met two nice gentlemen on tbs
car yesterday" said Miss Esmeralda
Longcoffin to Dudley Canesucker.
What did they say?"
'They didn't say anything. There
was one on my right and ono on my
left When got up to get off the car
they bowed. I"
They bowed, did they? Well. they
are rascals."
''How do you know? You didn't see
them."
Il know that right and left bowers
are knaves. Texas Siftings.
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