Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-01-27

days, but ak months on that food alone,
and we do not hesitate to say from our
long knowledge of the sustaining power
of the FOOD that q man at the end OF
sixty days would be of practically the
same weight as when he started,-if he be
q man of normal weight.
We will suppose that from his work
be lost q pound a day and made up a
pound each day from food. If that prem
ise proved &c &c true the man IN sixty
days time would make sixty pounds of
tissue to replace what had been lost, and
this would be lone on Grape-Nuts and
milk with half the number of Galleries OF
butter. upon which 40 one can sustain
life.
that our contention is right that con-
centrated food like Grape-Nuts, which
L. partly digested and ready for easy as
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 digested, that Grape
Nuts and milk contain more nourish-
msnt that the system will absorb than
many pounds OF these other fooda
Distortion No. 8 charges hat our ties.
timonials were practically all paid for
and rewritten in Battle Greek.
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 tho trial brought out the
fact that we never printed a single test,
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 (l2Oa) let
tsrs received In one month from people
who wrote that they had either entirely
recovered their health or been benefited
~ following our suggestions on 1000
and beverages.
On three or four occasions In the pas,
ten or twelve years we printed broadcast
In papers offers of prizes to users oil
Postum and Grape-Nuts,-two hundred
of $500 and Ave of $1,000 each,-statins
thst each must be an honest letter witt
nance and address. We agreed not to pub
| Fish names. but to furnish them to en-
quirers by letter. These letter writer,
very generally answered those who wrot.
10 them. and verified the truth Of th,
| gtatements
Under this agreement not to publish
names literally scores OF letters came
| from doctors, We kept our word anC
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 editol
IL now in the Federal P~enitentiary fol
| fraudulent use Of the mails. For exam
pie. Pest announced in that magazine il
1907. etc." then follows our prize com
petitionl.
We used nearly all Of the papers ant
magszines in N sw YORK and the rest o
America, but the sensational writer gives
the impression to his readers that tn,
only magazine we used was one who's,
editor Is now In the Federal Per..SatiaTy,
cFr., something that we know nothins
of the truth of now, and never did
Space was bought in the magazine spoken
OF on a business basis for the reason tina
il went to q good class of readers. Tn,
incident seems to have furnished an OBJ
pcrtunity for a designing writer to de
cciye his readers.
We look upon honest human testimony