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Show FROM SAME DOX Where the Foods Come From. "Look hero, waiter, honest now, dou't you dip overy ono of theso flaked breakfast foods out of tho same box?" "Well, jes, boss, wo duz, all 'cept Qrapo-Nuts, cause that don't look llko tho others and people know 'zackly what Grape-Nuts looks like. But there's 'bout a dozen different ones named on the bill of fare and they aro all thin rolled flakes so it don't mako any dlffercnco which ono a man calls for, wo Just take out tho order from ono box." This talk led to an investigation. Dozens of factories sprung up about three years ago, making various kinds of breakfast foods, seeking to take tho business of tho original prepared breakfast food Grape-Nuts. These concerns after a precarious existence, nearly all failed, leaving thousands of boxes of their foods In mills and warehouses. ware-houses. Thoso wero in several Instances In-stances bought up for a song by speculators spec-ulators and sold out to grocers and hotels for little or nothing. Tbo process proc-ess of working off this old stock has been slow. One will see the names on menus of flaked foods that went out of business a year and a bait or two years ago. In a few cases where tho abandoned factories have been bought up, thero Is an effort to resus-citato resus-citato tho defunct, and by copying tho stylo of advertising of Urapo-Nuts, sook to Influence peoplo to purchase. But tho public has been educated to tho fact that all thesn thin flaked foods aro simp!) soaked wheat or oats rolled thin nnd dried out and packed. They aro not prepared llko Grape-Nuts, Grape-Nuts, in which tho thorough baking anu other operations which turn tho starch part of the whent and barley Into sugar, occupy manj hours nnd result re-sult In a food so digestible that small Infants thrive on it, while It also contains con-tains tho selected elements of Phos-phato Phos-phato of Potash and Albumen that unite In tho body to produce the soft gray subitance In brain nud ncrvo centers. Thero's a reason for Qrapo-Nuts, Qrapo-Nuts, and thore have been many Imitations, Imi-tations, a few of tho article Itself, but many moro of the kind and character of tho advertising. Imitators aro always al-ways counterfeiters and their printed and written statements cannot bo expected ex-pected to bo different than their goods. This artlclo Is published by the Poetura Co at Battlo Creek. Addition-I'al Addition-I'al evidence of the truth ccn bo supplied sup-plied in quantities. |