Date:  Thu, 14 Mar 1996 19:33:44 -0600

From:  Natalie Maynor <maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

Subject: Bounced Mail



> Date:     Thu, 14 Mar 1996 20:18:22 -0500

> From: "L-Soft list server at UGA (1.8b)" <LISTSERV[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]uga.cc.uga.edu>

> Subject:   ADS-L: error report from WORLD.STD.COM

>

>The enclosed message, found in the ADS-L mailbox and shown under the spool ID

>2517 in the system log, has been identified as a possible delivery error notice

>for the following reason: "Sender:", "From:" or "Reply-To:" field pointing to

>the list has been found in mail body.

>

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> Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 19:11:53 -0500

> From: cls[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]world.std.com (Charity Stafford)

> Subject: Re: Clabber ad infinitum

>

>    Date:     Thu, 14 Mar 1996 16:48:47 EST

>    From: Albin Warth <albin[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]FRONTIER.COM>

>    Subject:   Re: Clabber ad infinitum

>

> Albin Warth wrote:

>

> >> When I was growing up in the eastern part of Oklahoma, on a ranch-farm

> >> in or near Muskogee, Oklahoma, "clabbered milk" was a quite common

> >> expression. Clabbered milk was supposed to help make extra good

> >> biscuits. Further there was a brand of baking powder called "Clabber

> >> Girl Baking Powder," advertised, as I dimly recall. on signs sporting

> >> a young woman in a bonnet, a long farm dress, and maybe(?) an apron.

> >> CLABBER GIRL BAKING POWDER. I am attempting to run down not the girl

> >> but a patent which might reveal the company's name. It could just as

> >> simply be Clabber Girl Baking Powder Co.

> >>

> >> That's it!

> >>

> >> smjones

>

>

> > I'm almost certain that this was the Calumet (Baking?) Co. I'm familiar

> > with this because the owner of Calumet (name of Wright, I think) also

> > owned Calumet Farms, which bred many fine racehorses, "Clabber Girl"

> > being one of these. I never knew how she got her name until I spotted

> > an antique can of Clabber Girl Baking Powder.

>

>

> Nope - the company name on the can is Hulman & Co. of Terre

> Haute, Indiana.  (Up here in Boston we have Rumford and

> Calumet brands, but I have a can of Clabber Girl that I

> bought while visiting my sister in Knoxville, because I was

> so taken with the name and the old-fashioned illustration

> on the label.

>

> Charity

>

>