The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1911-01-19

days, but six months on that food alone,
and we do not hesitate to say from our
long knowledge of the sustaining power
of the food that a man at the end OF
sixty days would be of practically the
same weight as when he startcd,-if he be
a man of nor, al weight.
We will suppose that from his work
he lost a pound day and made UP a
pound each day from food. If that prem
ise proved to be true the man in sixty
days time would make sixty pounds Of
tissue to replace what had been lost, and
this would be done on Grape-Nuts and
milk with half the number of calories OF
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-N Nuts, which
similation by the body, presents more
nourishment that the system will abb
sorb 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 dgested, 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-
timonials were practically all paid for
and re written 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 we never printed single testi-
monial that we did not have the genuine
letter back Of. Many of these letters
came spontaneously. A record was kept
of twelve hundred and four (l204) let
tiers received in one month from people
who wrote that they had either entirely
by following our suggestions on food
and beverages.
On three. or four occasions in the 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,--statino
/ that each must be an honest letter with
name and address. We agreed not to pub
| lish names, but to furnish them to en-
| uuirers by letter. These letter writers
very generally answered those who wrote
| to them, and verified the truth of the
| statements.
Under this agreement not to publish
names literally scores of letters came
| from doctors. We kept our word ant
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
| York Magazine of .- whose edito!
is now in the Federal Penitentiary TO
| fraudulent use of the mails. For exam
pie, Post announced in that magazine il
1907. etc." (then follows our prize com
| petition).
We used nearly all Of the papers an!
magazines in New York and the rest 0
| America, but the sensational writer give
the impression to his readers that tn
only magazine we used was one who's
editor is now in the Federal Penitentiary,
ETC., something that we know nothin!
of the truth of now. and never did
Space was bought in the magazine spoken
of on business basis for the reason tina
it went to q good class of readers. Tn
incident seems to have furnished an OF
portunity for designing writer to de
ceive his readers.
We look upon honest human testimon.