Calumet Baking Powder Company was an American

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 food

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 company established in 1889 in Chicago

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, Illinois

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, by baking powder

Baking powder

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 salesman, William Monroe Wright. His newly formulated double-acting baking powder took its name from the Native American

Native Americans in the United States

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 name for a peace pipe given to the lands now known as Calumet City, Illinois

Calumet City, Illinois

Calumet City is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 39,072 at the 2000 census. The ZIP code is 60409.Calumet City was founded in 1892 when the villages of Schrumville and Sobieski Park merged under the name of West Hammond, since it lies on the west side of the...

. Wright's company adopted an Indian head as its trademark, an image not dissimilar to that later used by the Chicago Black Hawks

Chicago Blackhawks

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 ice hockey

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In 1929, William Wright sold out to General Foods

General Foods

General Foods Corporation was a company whose direct predecessor was established in the USA by Charles William Post as the Postum Cereal Company in 1895. The name General Foods was adopted in 1929, after several corporate acquisitions...

 and Calumet Baking Powder became one of its many name brand

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