12 household! I | rc and es tKIARKET AND FOOD PkGWi, ECO ?Sf? ,ES S MRKrTI D The Store That Protect-s<SSi§| market I MENUS LOSlli . Against- Impure-Food HINTS ' > WONDERBAR RYE is a winner—have you tried it? SCHMIDT'S BAKERY — , ( PURE INGREDIENTS MAKES HERSHEY'S ICE CREAM THE STANDARD OF EXCELLENCE Hershey Creamery Co. 401 S. Cameron St., Harrisburg, Pa. — . _> PHONE 2010-J. ' Crystal Restaurant \ 418 Market Street We aim to live up to all Pure Food require ments in our Restaurant Business, and to justify our claim we invite anyone to visit all departments of our plant. We buy the best grade of everything, and that accounts for our enviable volume of busi ness. GEORGE & CO. Prop. V / \ C. D. Stonesifer Wholesale nnd Rrtall FBI ITS, FISH. OYSTERS \\D PRODUCE 1303 BAILEY STREET r \ llif Exlrnfiit (irooery nnd Meat Market—where purity rules H. J. HRACOXEY, Prop. 100 l N. 6tli St. Bell Phone 2689-W f N Clariflrd and Pa»teurl»ed Milk RYDER BROS. Wot Shore Dairy, I.emoyne, Pa. Bell Phone 3070-M. "V . Sugar Bowl Confectionery • D. N. GEKAS, Prop. We-nuke our own CANDIES and ICE CREAM. Herr and Third Sts. V_—— f —\ BKM, PHONE 2460 D.W. Raub Grocer EVERYTHING FOR THE TABLE Sixteenth and Liberty Streets Harrisburg, Pa. ________ J THURSDAY EVENING. 1 Bell Phone 173. 2fl S. Pourth St. . PURE FOODS Cooked like you would want them in your own home. REASONABLE PRICES BUSY BEE RESTAURANT 9 N. 4th St. — - J ; t V she gets by V trading at V GAULT'S GROCERY CHEEN AM) NORTH STREETS llotli I'hoDON. RUSS FISH MARKET RL'SS A WINDSOR, Proprietor* Wholesale and Retail I3ealer« In FISH, GAME, CRABS and CRAB MEAT Auto Delivery. Market Square V J GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS and a Full Mae of Table Goodt. Bell Telephone SIXTH AND DAUPHIN STS. HARRISBURG, PA. rfr Harrisburg Tele^rap'h Will Give $5.00 Away Each Week In Prizes Beginning to-day, the Harrisburg Telegraph Letters will be judged according to the manner will publish once a week on Thursday, for twenty- in which the subject is covered, spelling, gram six weeks, a Pure Food Page made up of the an- matical construction, and neatness. Contestants nouncements of a number of local dealers and may write as many letters as they choose - but not manufacturers of food stuffs. m ° r ? ° ne ma V covered by any one letter. Communications should preferably be t. within two hundred words, and written on one To encourage the reading of these announce- side of the paper only ments from week to week, and thus acquaint Telegraph readers with various food products All letters must be addressed to the Pure Food offered by these various dealers, the Harrisburg Editor, Harrisburg Telegraph, and reach this of- Telegraph will offer each week five prizes of SI.OO J"' ? b ? than t m }_ dni Z ht Mrh for tv.-, I*.. Monday, June 26th, 1916. The names of the win-' , . . c ers on the various pro- ners an( j t h e prize-winning letters will be pub ducts advertised on this page. Hshed on this page next Thursday. Get Busy—Try For One of These Prizes F' O O Tfc w they build or X * DESTROY" AMAZING BUT RARELY SUSPECTED , TRUTHS ABOUT THE THINGS YOU EAT I l^ r w' U Mocann.') y By ALFRED W. McCANN CHAPTER 75 " . ! The "Mixed Flour" Evil Is Becoming \\orse—ln Tills Department of Food j Fraud. Which Is Rapidly Urotving to j j an Extent Tliat Now Spreads j Throughout the Entire Country, Retined Flour Is Diluted, Adulterat ed, and Extended With Corn Starch, Rleli Starch, and Potato Starch to a Degree Tlmt Still Further Demin crullzes Its Already Denatured Vir | tues—The Facts Revealed Here, Although Generally Unsuspected hy the Public, Are Peculiarly Alarming. I There is still another white flour j j evil that is not related to the unsound |or bleached flour evil. Most people, | despite the extent to which It is car- J ried on, ha ve never heard of It. It was. known in the trade long be ! fore the outbreak of the Spanish war j 1 that millions of pounds of adulterated] ] white flour were annually sold to i bakers. It was the custom of the! j trade to cheapen the so-called patent! j flour manufactured by the millers of [ wheat by adding varying percentages j of corn starch or rice starch or potato j starch, all of which in bulk are pur- I ehasable at a price at least one- | third less than the price of wheat! [ flour. During the years from 1910 to 1915,' ! for instance, wheat at the large cen- i j ters ranged in price from 77% cents to j $1.31 per bushel, the average pricei being about $J per bushel. During the same period the price ; l of corn in the same markets ranged J | from 45 cents to 86 cents per bushel, j the average price being 65 cents per bushel. j Congress, seeking new revenues | during the Spanish war and knowing the trickery of the wholesale bakery j supply houses, included in the Span ish war revenue act of 1898 a pro j vision fixing a tax of 4 cents a barrel jon "mixed flour," together with an | occupation tax of sl2 per annum and | providing that the manufacture and jsale of mixed flour shall be conducted 1 ; under the control of the Department l of Internal Revenue. The Spanish war revenue measure! tdid not concern itself about fraud or; public health. It was a money-rais- j lng proposition. It was, however, an ! eloquent index of a situation the very existence of which had never been suspected by the people. Whether it is known or not, nearly all bakers are to-day producing their | five- and ten-cent loaves with the as- . I sistance of corn starch? rich starch, | potato starch, or other water ab- i j sorbing ingredients. Wo have already seen the extent to which white flour is robbed of the ! most indispensable food elements of the wheat. We have studied the data ; GRISSINGER'S HOMADE CAKE BAKERY Purity of Ingredient* mil sani tary condition* ore re«poiiall>le for our atemly KTOUIIIK liuaineiiM. Phone S4O«-n, LEMOYNB, PA. MONNBROS. Pure Food Grocers 1637 Swatara St. Bell Phone 130S-M. v j GEO. A. GOHL I Baker of Cakes, Bread, Rolls, Pies 560 WOODBINE ST. Bell Phone 1 J ' ' "N Kerr's Meat Market 43 N. Thirteenth St. Special attention to phone orders. Bell Phone 3726. v HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH = '■ I established by scientists concerning 'the inadequate food value of impov erished carbohydrates, such as deter minated corn meal and polished rice. We have studied the one-sidedness of the products of starch regardless of its origin. We know that the seven largest refining companies in the United States annually grind upward of 56,000,000 bushels of corn, the starch of which is separated and con verted into glucose for the candy manufacturer or sold as a bread-filler to bakers. We know that these manufacturers of corn starch or corn flour are them selves on record with the following statement: "The philosophy of the present I mixed flour law is that the mixing of I wheat with other cereals of the prod-i l nets thereof is a vicious practice but 1 j that upon the payment of certain' f taxes* the miller who is sufficiently | conscienceless to do so can make al j most any sort of mixture. | "As a matter of detail it should be I borne in mind that the wholesome ness of mixed flour is not at present j protected by the law of 1898, but rather the more recent food and drugs | act (1906). Consequently the removal jof the taxing provision could by no 'stretch of the imagination have any effect whatever upon the important | point of wholesomeness." I The manufacturers of corn starch ] declare that "technical research in | this country and practical experience j abroad have shown that the protein jof wheat is sufficiently strong easily jto carry through the process of bread-making 20 per cent, added starch, be the source of that starch j rice, potato, or corn." It is therefore, perfectly legitimate, they argue, to still further tamper with the staff of life as now made of demineralized white wheat flour by a cheapening process that requires the addition of a still larger percentage of starch. , Let us examine the philosophy of | the corn starch manufacturer who j describes his product as "a yeast food : flour." I have a signed statement in my possession, dated March 10, 1915, i addressed to the bakers of the country ; by one of these corn products manu facturers. Because it tells just why corn slarch is used and throws inside light upon the subject 1 quote it in full as follows: "If fhere ever was a time when in justice to your business you should use 'special yeast food flour' it is right now. When you can buy 'special yeast food flour" at about the same price as wheat flour or probably a little less and when you consider that! 'special yeast food flour' will give you a net profit of at least $6 per t — N Hell Phone Prompt Service Open Day and Night PALACE RESTAURANT 1 ALSEDEK, GANGEE & CO. 2 S. Fourth Street Harrisburg, Pa. $5.50 Commutation 4 Tickets, s.■».<)(); $3.30 Commutation Tickets, $3.00. Special Sunday Dinners. t —— Call Bell Phone 2056 W. D. Farr The Grocer 1537 State Street <—.— , barrel over the profit you get on your wheat flour, you certainly cannot af- ' ford to manufacture bread without! 'special yeast food flour." "Two hundred pounds 'special yeast food flour' with 400 pounds water makes (0) pounds material. "Two hundred pounds wheat flour j with 120 pounds water makes 320 pounds material. "Other ingredients (lard, salt, etc.) \ are not figured in this computation, being the same in each case. ' "This shows a net gain of 280 pounds material for every barrel 'special yeast food flour' used. 1 "Even figuring that you only get\ 200 pounds baked bread extra from i every barrel of 'special yeasf food flour' used in your shop and only fig uring the cost of bread at 3 cents per pound you can readily see that you are making a profit of $6.00. "As a matter of fact a barrel of 'special yeast food flour' will give you more than 200 pounds of baked bread j extra and no doubt your cost of bread now Is more than 3 cents per pound, j "It is therefore up to you to decide j i how much 'special yeast food flour' | you can use. If you use a barrel a I day or 200 barrels a month, as other | large bakers are using, you still make I :at least $6.00 on each barrel. This) 'means an extra profit of from SIBO to! $1,200 a month through the use of!' 'special yeast food flour' alone. "Everything that we ciai mean be j demonstrated to your entire satisfac-I tion in your own bakery and the re- i suits you will get will prove that what i we have written in this letter is true | in every sense of the word. "Ninety per cent, of the large bakers in this country and Canada are using 'special yeast food flour.' "If 'special yeast food flour' is j wrong then nine out of every ten bakers are wrong, which would hardly ! be possible. "Is it not fair to assume that they | are using it because they, make good profit from it? "May we, therefore, send you a shipment at once? "our early order! will be appreciated. Yours very truly, j "Manager." I This letter is characteristic of many others now in my possession. It re- 1 veals the real purpose for which corn I starch is. utilized by bakers in the i systematic and ever-increasing effort! to lower the food value of the staff of life in order that constantly in creasing profits may be obtained. I grant that the facts disclosed in | this treatment of the food subject are ] sensational in the extreme, and fori this reason hold that congressional action on the subject becomes more, imperative every day. We shall now see to what extent the largest bakers of white flour! bread in the United States admit the I impoverished character of their prod uct. In the meantime the children of the | poor are eating this product three i times a day during 365 days in the year. Only too frequently after school j they ack for a "piece" of bread. Flour ! ' millers would have them depend upon some lucky accident in obtaining the \ necessary offsetting elements from some other benevolent foodstuff con taining a surplus of such offset. Flour millers ignore the tragic facts I that prove that the great white bread - eater, consuming large quantities of! demineralized wheat and corn starch, does not obtain these offsetting ele ments. What is to be done about it? / ——N Samuel Gardner WHOLESALE DF.ALEIt IN FRUITS AND PRODUCE 1311 N. 3rd St. BHI ~honr ~,53 Wilson T. Hoy 1 Quality Groceries QUICK SERVICE REASONABLE PRICES 1701 MARKET ST. Bell Phone fl«3. > S. Spungin WHOLESALER OF ALL KINDS OF MEATS 326-330 S. CAMERON ST. Both Phones L JUNE 22, 1916. D , ICft , /for HOME USE Phone 1607 n DEAN F.WALKER Manufacturer of Ice Cream 409 NORTH 2nd STREET PARTICULAR PEOPLE DEMAND OUR CREAM MADE OF PUREST INGREDIENTS y VEGETABLES In these days of so much talk on preparedness, would it not be well to take into consideration one's body? We know the doctors all advise thfe use of vegetables. This week we offer from our own growing the following: Asparagus, rhubarb, radishes, lettuce, Spring onions, beets, peas, spinach. Also a full line of Southern vegetables will be found at our stalls. Learn the names of those in charge of our market stands; it may help you In your marketing. SALESMEN IN CHARGE Brood St. Market. Hill Market. rhe»taut St. Market. Stalls S3 and 100. Stalls 30, 32 mid 137. Mr. Zimmerman and Stalls lltlt and -00. r . Kouf and Mr. College. Mr. CJerber. Mrs. Raker. East End Fruit and Truck Farms ROBT. J. WALTON V J Pure Milk The best drink for a summer day is a glass of pure milk. When you are tired drink a glass of pure milk. When you are thirsty drink a glass of pure milk. When you are warm drink a glass of cool pure milk. Pasteurized, Certified or Bonnymeads. WE WILL DELIVER TO YOU Penna. Milk Products Co. 2112 Atlas St. Bell 26. C. V. 179 W. « '>, J Phone 459J George Collins ICE CREAM MANUFACTURER 41 North 13th Street We use only the purest ingredients in the manufacture of our Ice Cream. That is why they ask for Collins' Cream. We MAY need your business. You DO need our goods. v_ Phone 2 187-J Green and Seneca JACOBY'S ORIGINAL STEAM AND BUTTER PRETZELS MADE BY HARRISBURG PRETZEL CO. Kach Taste Suggests Another V — • - > Have you tried our Jumbo Peanuts Roasted fresh daily. OURCOFFEE is blended from the best the world produces. Imperial Tea Co. 213 Chestnut Street Two Doors Below Market Bell Phone 330-M. \ - JOSEPH SPAGNOLO ] WHOLESALE AND RETAIL ICE CREAM Importer of Cornett and Wafers 143 Hanna St., corner Race I J] E. BIERBOWEIT Wholesale and Retail Commission Merchant Fish, Oysters, Clams and Sea Foods Eggs and Poultry 120 S. Court Avenue Bell Phone 1159-J United Phone 914-W. J
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