Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-01-24

days, hut six months on that food alone
and we DO not hesitate to say from GU
long knowledge of the sustaining powe
of the food that a man at the end c
sixty days would be of practically tn
same weight as when he started,-if he
man of normal weight.
We will suppose that from his worI
he lost pound a day and made up
| pound each day from food. If that prem
| Use proved to be true the man in sixty
| days time would make sixty pounds O
| tissue to replace what had been lost, ane
| this would be done on Grape-N Nuts anC
milk with half the number of calories o.
butter, upon which no one can sustain
life.
Therefore. we have reason to believe
that our contention is right that con.
centrated food like Grape-Nuts, which
is partly digested and ready for easy as.
sanitation by the body, presents more
nourlshment that the system will alb.
serb than many other forms of food, and
we will further say that in cases of diges-
tive troubles where meat, white bread
and oats cannot be digested, that Grape
Nuts and milk contain more nourish-
ment that the system will absorb than
many pounds of these other foods.
Distortion No. 8 charges that our tes-
tlmonials were practically all paid for
and rewritten in Battle Creek.
:, These testimonials were demanded by
the opposing lawyers. Naturally this
demand was refused, for they are held in
vaults and kept safe to prove the truth,
and are not to be delivered up on demand
of enemies.
Testimony at the trial brought out the
fact that r,r,r+aI
monlal that we did not have the genuine
letter back of. Many of these letters
came spontaneously. A record was kent
of twelve hundred and four (l2O4 let
tiers received in one month from people
who wrote that they had either entirely
recovered their health or been benefited
by following our suggestions on food
and beverages.
On three. or four occasions in TIE past
ten or twelve years we printed broadcast
In papers offers of prizes to users of
Postum and Grape-Nuts.-two hundred
81 90 prizes, one hundred $500. twenty
of $500 and five of $1,000 each'-statinc
that each must be an honest letter with
name and address. We agreed not to pub
Gsh names, but to furnish them to en-
quirers by letter. These letter writers
very generally answered those who wrote
to them, and verified the truth of the
Under this agreement not TO publish
names literally scores of letters came
from doctors. We kept our word and
neither printed their names or surren-
dered the letters.
Right here notice an Limitation spasm."
The Weekly" says; Post got those testi-
monials by advertising for them. In New
York he used for that purpose the New
Y ork Magazine Of - whose editor
IS now in the Federal Penitentiary for
fraudulent use of the mails For exam
pie. Post announced in that magazine in
1907, ETC." then follows our prize CON-
We used nearly all of the papers md |
nagazines in New York. and the rest Of |
America, but the sensational writer gives /
he impression to his readers that tie l
,nly magazine we used was one whose I
,ditor is now in the Federal Penitentiarv' /
tc., something that we know nothing /
4 the truth of now, and never did. /
'paee was bought in the magazine spoken |
( on a business basis for the reason that 1
t went TO a good class Of readers The
Incident seems 10 have furnished an op-
'ortunity for. a designing writer TO de-
Give his readers.
We look upon honest human testimony