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Checking and Mailing Room.

An average of about One Million Dollars per annum is spent in advertising Grape-Nuts and Postum. Every issue of every publication carrying the advertisement is brought to this room, and the space occupied checked off, and bills audited for payment. A part of the outgoing mail is sent from this room; the machine shown on the lower right-hand corner is an electric envelope sealer, and seals 5,000 envelopes per hour.
which furnished the body with energy, and that starch (the white part of wheat and barley, like white flour), pre-digested, so it could be easily taken up by the blood and deposited in the tissues to supply energy, and by being pre-digested it would not overtax the organs of digestion. Starch, you know, is not digested in the stomach. It is put out through the pylorus, thence treated by the secretions of the liver and pancreas in moisture and warmth of body, it 1s slowly turned into a form of sugar,

One of the rooms for the Stenographers.

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