Word: cereal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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George Hughie, the leading philosopher of Friendship, put the whole thing in one of his characteristic nutshells last week. Said he: "I hain't a-goin' to vote fer neither one. I wouldn't vote fer that cereal man. An' if it takes two Smith brothers ter make a package o' cough drops, 'taint likely one's goin' to do much to run th' country...
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...
People liked Postum cereal's morning brew, and their purchases gave Post enough money to continue pottering around the oven. Whole wheat and barley came out of the oven Grape Nuts. Later came thin, crisp Post Toasties, then Instant Postum powder. These four products were the foundation blocks of the great Postum business...
...that part of an in dividual's earned income which is credited with a 25% 4,500,000 Increasing the 75-cent exemption on admission tickets to $3 15,000,000 Increasing the $10 exemption on club dues to $25 1,000,000 Repeal of the cereal bever age tax 185,000 Reduction of the wine tax. . 1,000,000 Repealing the tax on foreign-built yachts 10,000 Reducing the $6 tax on retail druggists who sell narcotics, to $3. 150,000 Total reductions $225,295,000 INCREASES Withholding at source taxes due from nonresident stockholders...
Kaffee Hag. The Kellogg Co. (cereal foods) has bought the Kaffee Hag Corp. of Cleveland, makers of decaffeinated coffee, and will immediately increase the production and sale of Kaffee Hag. Said J F O'Brein, vice president and director of sales for the Kellogg Co., last week: "We realize that coffee is the great national drink of America. There are thousands of people, however, who like coffee, but who feel that they should not drink it with the caffein in it. These people, together with the non-coffee drinkers, including children, constitute a tremendous market for a caffein-free...