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Diabetics who must munch bran rolls, bran biscuits, bran cookies, bran bread, were cheered to learn last week that a fine white cracker has been prepared for their delectation. In appearance like the simple soda cracker, this delicacy is the result of years of patient experimenting by the departments of Physiological Chemistry, of Food and Cookery in Teachers College, Columbia University. The basis of the biscuit is intarvin, a specially constructed fat discovered by Dr. Max Kahn, of the College of Physicians & Surgeons in 1923. Dr. William John Gies of the Department of Biological Chemistry at Teachers College, directed experiments...
Postum Company, biggest trademarked food company, began at Battle Creek, Mich., 33 years ago when the late Charles W. Post pottered around an oven with wheat bran and molasses. By roasting them he sought a coffee substitute. He found the substitute and called it Postum Cereal...
Beneficiary. The chief beneficiary of the great Postum Company's expansion is golden-haired Marjorie Post Close Hutton, whose father took roasted wheat bran and molasses out of the Battle Creek oven 33 years...
...best steer of the exposition was California Stamp, raised by students at the University of California. It weighed 1,055 pounds, accumulated by feeding on barley, oats, bran & alfalfa. The New Bismarck Hotel, Chicago, paid $2.35 a pound for California Stamp, to slaughter him for its Christmas dinners. Last year's champion fat steer, Rupert B., brought $3.60 a pound on the hoof, highest price ever paid...
...name is William M. Jardine and his mind works like Herbert Hoover's. Both of them are "pluggers." A man must be a "plugger" who can produce a 120-page annual report on agriculture covering the entire field from "Swine Sanitation" to the "Nutritive Value of Wheat Bran...