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Posted By: Bob Manning

Alan:

Great trade card! Some useless information:

The quotation on the obverse is a take off on Gilbert & Sullivan's "A Policeman's Lot is Not a Happy One," from the Pirates of Penzance.

As regards Professor Doremus, see:

http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/17765

http://imagesvr.library.upenn.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?type=detail&cc=smith&entryid=X-smit1680&viewid=1&sstrt=1&hits=1&q1=%5B1014%5D&cat1=PeopleID&thsz=12&txsz=50&slsz=1&c=smith

And from the September 29, 1889 Logansport Journal ...

"NEW YORKS GREAT CHEMIST This is to certify that I have analyzed Dr Prices Cream BAKING POWDER 1 find it composed of pure materials compounded on correct scientific principles The ingredients are accurate ly and scientifically proportioned Hence bread or bis prepared with it arebettersuited for digestion R OGDEN DOREMUS M IX LL D VioL Chemistry and Toxicology In the New Bullevue Uosnltul Medical Colkse ITot Chemistry and Physics the College ot the City at New York."

The good professor seems to have had a passion for baking powder.