The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 15, 1917, Page 20

STAR—SATURDAY, SEPT. 15, 1917. PAGE 20 Washington | Leads Coast in Flour Milling Seattle Mills Have the Big- UNEXCELLED FoR s« ’ pe 4| HAMMOND City in the West. Washington leads the Pacific coast in milling capacity , : B T With 32,860 barrels daily out of a total of 92,662 in the fol b - k S Towing states: Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Mon é . = - tana, Utah, Nevada, British Columbia. And Seattle flour mills have a greater capacity than in any other city, with a total of 11,800 barrels daily as compared with 9,500 in Ta- oma, 6,100 in Portland, 1,600 in Spokane, 2,150 in ~ Los Angeles. Washington maintains this record tho it had credited to © it on January 1, 1917, only 77 mills as against 105 in California bY The Seattle flour mills showed the following daily capac- | ity at the beginning of 1917 and since then there have been some enlargements: a Centennial Mill Co., 4,000 barrels; Fisher Flouring Mills © Co,, 5,000 barrels; Hammond Milling Co., 2,000 barrels; Chas HA. Lilly Co., 450 barrels; Novelty Mill Co., 350 barrels Seattle shipped in 1916 by water routes alone 842,055 bar Tels of flour to the following places: Alaska, ; Bering Meee, 21,592; California, 482,200; Hawa Islands, 24,491 H 95,243; British Columbi England, 37,575 970; South America, 2: ; Straits Settlements, In addition to this, it shipped by water 8,982 tons of feed and 1,731,968 bushels of wheat A Few Facts on Food Values With Special ence 10 Flour af = : 7 of BEST for rom an Econom 1) 4 . at Diindeeint | mm | BREAD and PA Dr. Wiley, the world’s greatest expert on nutrition, says of white bread: “There is a popular fallacy in favor of meat. Meat contains 60 per cent water and costs 25 cents a pound. White bread contains only 40 per cent water and costs 5 cents per pound. There is more energy in a pound of white bread than in a pound of meat. Hard Workers need bread more than meat. If the cost of flour makes bread rise, cut down on meat. Bread is the best ‘and cheapest food known.” Science has proven that the digestibility of bread de creases as the amount of fibrous or branny matter in- creases. White bread is digestible to the extent of 93 per cent, whole wheat flour bread to the extent of 89 per cent, and graham bread to the extent of 84 per cent, while nee: von uments mataly of filet and woody fiber, Mt. Rainier, which is fringed with evergreen forest from {ts base is both innutritive and indigestible. to the snow line, 6,000 feet above, and the entrance to Rainier Na-| tional park, a summer resort on the mountain, within a few hours’) It would be equally as sensible to throw away the | travel from Seattle, that is attracting thousands of tourists every year. kernel of the walnut and eat the shells as it is to refuse | | Sait tote a'cors soma ett duet wen, ewe | Majestic Rainier and theman stomach will not. . ' National Park Attract Advertisers against white flour have tried to delude the people into the belief that the coarse, fibrous flours J 4 t F ll I J S contain more energy constituents than white flour, but ourists from A WD. science has repeatedly shown that there is more digestible “ . nutriment in white flour than in the coarse substitutes. Have you ever been to Enchantment Land, |e ae Seas To the mountain of many snows; ‘e make white flour and the coarse jours, 7” A A but unqualifiedly recommend the use of white flour, which To the sure enough Land of Heart's Desire, contains all the food elements the body needs, and is di- Where the sun-kissed heather grows? gested more completely than any other known food. | Thus sang the poet. Nor has he overdone the picture Some people think the coarser and blacker food s the of Mt. Rainier. Thousands of autoisist who have made the} better it is, yet they abhor dirt. high-grade white flour trip to the mountain and the Rainier Natio park will is clean and wholesome. testify to this | S alone the rugg mountain c] fr is this mag-| The cow’s stomach will digest woody fiber and some of r nt work of Nat M notels, } hot and cold the prepared foods, but the human stomach will not. th spler cut ‘ 7 r r ain, give the} Science has demonstrated over and over that finely milled vis the white flour is the best food known. Mt. Rainier » be se sing in bold, majestic outline,| gut 29 sr hag png, That is what we promise after twenty-five years’ Others try to persuade the public to use food as a medi- foggy days i E ‘ cak dimmed. It soars to cine instead of a tissue builder. White flour is not a altitude of 14,526 feet, anc ng on the west coast of North 1 } Whi . medicine, but it prevents disease by building healthy American can vie 4 yrandeur and beauty. The Rai experience in the milling business. tissues. nier National park is essible, both by train, con necting with auto st “ ry autome It is but a few} hours’ ride by tra c le to Ask , where the auto} stages meet the tourists e and a half hours from the} time one boards a train at Seattle, Nisqually glacier is in Ninety-three per cent of bread made of finely milled white flour is digestible. It is the best and cheapest food known. One pound of Olympic Flour contains twelve times as much heat energy as one pound of sirloin steak. But most visitors to t tk go by auto, for this trip is The Portland Flouring thru one of the most w« 11 beauty spots of the world A dark fring rree est encircles the base of the . x t 1e line, 6,000 feet above. The Mills Co. wonderft tem, lox , meadows, lakes, deep ca i I all these are sources of admiration} s well as to those who regularly spend their mountain May the Best Things of Life Bring “Peace With Prosperity” Let the united citizens of the world strive for lasting peace and work for prolonged prosperity. Let us, we of the West, be firm in our purpose to waste nothing; con sistent in our aim to buy nothing but true value for moneys expended. We submit in the same spirit to your Go where you will—pay any price —it is impossible to get the Judgment, and urge you to examine th alue of a pound ~ e ’ Me ° of Crescent Double Acting Baking Powder, which all equal of Centennial’s Best Flour for all purposes for which Wheat Flour grocers sell for 25c. We hope you will insist upon learning is used why and how Crescent Mapleine, “The Golden Flavor,” sf is Used in 1,000,000 American . CENTENNIAL MILL COMPANY Homes Today PHONE ELLIOTT 421. V CRESCENT