Gunnison Gazette | 1909-04-23 | Page 2 | Potato Makes Proud Boast |

Type	issue
Date	1909-04-23
Paper	Gunnison Gazette
Language	eng
City	Gunnison
County	Sevier
Rights	No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
Publisher	Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Article Title	Potato Makes Proud Boast
Type	article
Date	1909-04-23
Paper	Gunnison Gazette
Language	eng
City	Gunnison
County	Sevier
Page	2
OCR Text	Show POTATO MAKES PROUD BOAST. Humble Vegetable Used forMany Other Oth-er Purposes Than Recognized Recog-nized Dinner Essential. Whenever you lick a postage stamp you partake of me, since all lickable gums are made from dextrine, one of my products. Your neck caresses me all day for the starch that stiffens your collar is made from the potato. The bone buttons on your underwear under-wear are probably "vegetable ivory" compressed potato pulp. My leaves, dried, make a good smoke. You have often smoked them "unbeknownst," mixed with your favorite fa-vorite brand. Potato spirit is a very pure alcohol. It is used to fortify white wines. Many a headache is not so much due to the grape as the potato. I yield a sweet syrup.. In this form I am often present in cheap cocoa, honey, butter and lard. Let the corpulent try as they will, they cannot escape yours truly, THE POTATO.
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