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Puffed Wheat

Photograph of Alexander Anderson
Title: Photograph of Alexander Anderson
Type: Photograph
Date: March 1933
Source: Minnesota Historical Society

Description: Alexander Anderson invented this cannon to make puffed grain for cereals.
Hospital Menu
Title: Hospital Menu
Type: Data
Date: 1925
Source: Goodhue County Historical Society

Description: This menu from the Abbott Hospital recipe book includes puffed rice as part of the breakfast menu.
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Article About the Digestibility of Bread
Title: Article About the Digestibility of Bread
Type: Newspaper
Date: 1927
Source: Northwestern Miller

Description: The Northwestern Miller published this article about the digestibility of bread in 1927.
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Patent Documents for Alexander Anderson
Title: Patent Documents for Alexander Anderson
Type: Document
Date: 1902
Source: Minnesota Historical Society

Description: Alexander Anderson prepared these papers in order to get a patent on the process he invented for puffing grain.
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Advertisement for Puffed Cereal
Title: Advertisement for Puffed Cereal
Type: Advertisement
Date: 1930
Source: Minnesota Historical Society

Description: Quaker Oats published these ads encouraging people to buy Anderson's puffed cereals.
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Universal Exposition of 1904
Title: Universal Exposition of 1904
Type: Document
Date: 1904
Source: Jean Chesley, Red Wing, Minnesota

Description: The American Cereal Company operated a concession stand introducing puffed rice at the Universal Exposition of 1904 in St. Louis.
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