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...Paris, savants of the French Medical Academy ruled upon an appeal by French bakers that they be allowed to use baking powder in bread. To support their appeal, the French alleged that baking powder is used by U. S. bread-bakers (most U. S. bakers use yeast) and that the health of U. S. bread-eaters has never been impaired in consequence. The use of baking powder, they declared, is an "efficient method," a "laborsaving device" and a ''time-saving expedient'' because it makes possible the elimination of manual kneading...
France eats four times more bread per capita than any other nation. French breadmaking has long been regulated by strict laws. French gourmets have always stood for hand-kneaded bread raised without baking powder. Therefore last week the French Medical Academy faced a grave responsibility, their decision was awaited with a popular interest...
...month he became commandant of the Rangers when Governor Ross D. Sterling (no kin) appointed him Adjutant General of the State. A lean six-footer, he is a graduate of Texas Agricultural & Mechanical College, was a lieutenant of infantry during the War but was kept from going overseas by powder-burned eyes. He has been a Ranger for four years, having commanded troopers in the border country. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum has selected him as the model for a proposed Ranger monument...
...stating that Russia's relations with Turkey are "most friendly"; with Japan, Persia and Afghanistan "also friendly"; with Italy "satisfactory"; with Germany "improved"; with Great Britain "fair." Poland, Comrade Molotov bluntly called a "vassal of France." France he mentioned as "the greatest menace to world peace-the European powder magazine...
...American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals carry emergency kits wherever they go. To be ready for every accident which may befall an animal, the kits contain a horse blanket, a water pail, new bits, colic medicine, spirits of ammonia, iodine, tourniquets, adhesive tape, bandages, dusting powder for sores. But in winter if a cruelty preventer finds a horse scrambling for foothold on a slippery pavement, or one which has fallen on the ice, he is unable to help if he has not got some horse carpet-slippers. Last week the Society announced that it was short...