Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-07-14
PROTECT OUR FOOD.

The doctors inform us that alum is q
poison, and that alum baking powders
should be avoided because they make
the food unwholesome. Prominent
~hygienists, who have given the matter
most study, regard these powders as
an evil that should be suppressed by
state action In Minnesota and Wis
cOnsin alum powders are not permitted
to be sold unless they are branded to
warn consumers of their true char
acter, while in the District Of Columbia
the authorities have under the direction
of Congress, adopted regulations to
prohibit the use Of alum in bread al
together.
Are not the people of other states,
as well as those Of Minnesota and
Wisconsin, entitled to warning of a
danger which is apparently menacing
them at close hand, and is not the
whole country entitled to absolute pro-
lection, as the people of the District
of Columbia are protected, by legisla-
ton which is entirely p%rohibitive?
Until we can have protection in the
form of a statute, how can our state
boards of health, state analysts or
food commissions better serve the pub
lie than by publishing in the news
papers from time to time the names of
the baking powders which they find to
be made from alum?
Meantime, it will aid the housewife
in designating the alum powders to re-
member that all powders sold at
twenty-five cents or less per pound are
Of this dangerous class. Pure cream
of tartar powders are usually sold at
from fOrty-ive to fifty cents a pound.
river bank. They finally veered off from
the town and passed, off over the prairie.
The residents of the town generally took
to the tall grass and there was consider
able alarm for a time.
The N. P. is taking out some large ex-
cursion parties to the park. The one
that passed through this city the middle
of the week comprised about a hundred
persons from all parts of the east. Ten
days will be spent in visiting the points
of interest in and about the park, and
the trip will be continued to Portland.
From there the party will visit Tacoma
and take the steamer Seattle for Alaska,
returning to Vancouver, B. c., and COM
ing east over the line of the Canadian
Pacific. They will arrive in the cities
on August 10, leaving for Duluth and
returning to Toledo and Buffalo on the
Northern Steamship company's passen-
ger boats. The party left Buffalo June
30, visiting Mackinac island and Duluth
en- route.
Dickinson Press: People who visit
Dickinson are surprised at the quantities
of wool that are coming in for sale.
Lieutenant Governor Devine, who was
here this week, was amazed to see the
great number of four-horse teams pull
ing in with their big loads of wool
crowding up to the platforms to get a
chance to unload. When told that the
Dickinson wool sold at II cents and bet
ter per pound and that there was being
marketed this season from 100000 to
100000 pound, MI. Devine was still more
surprised. "This," he said, 'means a
sum of money for wool, at the lowest
figures, of $12O,OOO." Later in the day
Mr.. Devine visited the Dickinson Fire &
Brick Works, where he found thirty-fve
men employed in the manufacture of
brick-the finest pressed brick this side
of st. Louis.