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...Atlas Powder...
...dark night last week two men watched a house near Park Avenue, Manhattan. A woman came out, glanced about her, bent down, sprinkled a powder about each house corner, quietly disappeared indoors. The two men gathered up pinches of the powder from the sidewalk, took the pinches to a chemist to be analyzed. As they had suspected, it was arsenic...
...without declaring it on the label. Corn Products Refining makes 400,000 Ib. of corn sugar per day, now plans to double its capacity, build a million-dollar plant. The company's trademarked products include: Argo starch; Mazola oil; Karo syrup; Linit starch; Cerelose white sugar; Kremel pudding powder...
...walls are safe, that a dog's life between 70th and 85th Streets, not only on Park Avenue but on lowly Madison and lowlier Lexington, may be in danger at every sniff. To discourage dogs from smelling at doors and house corners, people have been sprinkling nose-outraging powders. Evidently some of this powder has contained arsenic. Several dogs have been sick. One dog died in convulsions...
Instead of the usual powder flashlights, the cameramen used the new electric flashlamp that leaves no smoke, makes no bang. After the President . had been "shot" signing the bills, he inspected the lamp. "That's a new one," he said...