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On 2 April 1930 an unsigned editorial item declared that 'every regular reader of The Golden Age knows that we are absolutely right in our stand on the use of aluminum cooking utensils and that The Scientific American, The Literary Digest, and most of the M.D.'s are dead wrong'.

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Explicit statement · 2 April 1930 Verified

On 2 April 1930 an unsigned editorial item declared that 'every regular reader of The Golden Age knows that we are absolutely right in our stand on the use of aluminum cooking utensils and that The Scientific American, The Literary Digest, and most of the M.D.'s are dead wrong'. Source: The Golden Age, 2 April 1930

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The Golden Age, “The Only Explanation”

2 April 1930 · p.438 · Golden Age Publishing Company, Brooklyn, New York

“By this time every regular reader of The Golden Age knows that we are absolutely right in our stand on the use of aluminum cooking utensils and that The Scientific American, The Literary Digest, and most of the M.D.'s are dead wrong, and as immune to facts or to reason as the D.D.'s are on the “hell” question.”

An unsigned editorial item reproducing two United Press despatches from the Oregon Journal of January 1930 about food poisoning at The Dalles, Oregon, and mocking the state board of health officer who concluded that an aluminium roaster was not to blame.

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Confidence note. Read in the OCR text layer of the archive.org scan on 19 September 2026 on the leaf mapped to printed page 438, within the issue whose masthead reads 2 April 1930. Scanner hyphenation closed up; the OCR of the opening words is partly damaged and reads '»i i Y THIS time', which the surrounding sense and the printed column show to be 'By this time'.

Scan provenance. Internet Archive item '1930-1934TheGoldenAgeMagazine' (a compilation of selected issues, 1930-1934), uploaded by [email protected] to the 'faithmagazines' collection and marked public domain. Page numbers from the item's _djvu.xml leaf mapping joined to _page_numbers.json, cross-checked against the issue masthead 'Volume XI ... Wednesday, April 2, 1930 ... Number 275'.

Notes. Written in the magazine's own voice ('we'), not a contributor's. The preceding page, 437, carries a companion item, 'Sacramento's Poisoning Bee'.

Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-hlth-ga-1930-0402-only-explanation

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