Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-09-08


The following Is taken from the Bul.
letin Of the Chicago Health Department,
August IL:
There were no city meat inspectors
ut the Union Stockyartis dur.
ing the first seven months Of 1906. The
city inspectors mt the yards this year
have condemned 3,1OD. i3S pounds Of
food.
"Thc total contlemnatlons Of unfit
foods In the 1905 period were 453.05s
pounds. The total condemnatlons for
the 1906 period. including the inspec.
ton Of the yards. aggregate 4.3O0.Oa3
pounds. an increase Of 3,S520SG
pounds"
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Remember the Beef Trust when you
are elccting candidates for the Lcgis.
laturc this year.
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The number Of dead and diseased
hogs shipped by the Beef Trust and
sold as food In something awful.
Numbers Of hogs die In the cars In
transit to the Beef TruSt; their bodies
are often eaten by the other hogs and
their pet disease transmitted by them
to the human race.
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The Reef Trust has ruined many a
prosperous small business. The hide
industry. the boot and shoe trade, the
sheepskin tanners, the leather tanners,
the wool pullers. the wool trade. the
vegetable market, the poultry bust.
ness. the retail meat markets, the
wholesale meat markets. the soap
trndc-nll these and many more have
been swallowed up by this awful
levlathan. How much longer will the
people stand II?
How much longer will the American
people put up with diseased food!
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People who think that they get gootl
meat are invited to read the follow
ing clipped from the live stock repor.
Of the Chicago Daily News, January
O., 1906:
equality Of offerings was not good
II was such rs the trade usually looks
for Oh Tuesday, with tho Wisconsin
shipments largely predominating. II
was not the absence Of good finished
stuff that made the slow market. how
ever. as the buyers were generally
looking for low.priced cattle. Ship
pers had only u few orders Mt most
and the great percentage Of then
were for plain finished cattle. Since
the ending Of the western season ther,
has generally been rs good a demand
for the commoner sorts of cattle n
for the better priced steers. A few
toppy kinds have reached 1925 thl
week, but they are as scarce rs tn
proverbial hens teeth"
We do not see any quotations Il
the dallies on trichina hogs.
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All the rotten old Beef Trust lobby
lists, consisting of crooked lawyers
caston politicians and scarecrow states
W. s-~ getting ready. But when III
Illinois Legislature meets thes
worthless will be pointed out 80 that n
who runs may read.
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People must remember that the CIT
had only eleven inspectors at work o
cattle. hogs, sheep and provisions
Necessarily their work must hav
been very incomplete when there wer
, 100000 cattle week to inspect. Y,
4 hcrculosis ana cancer are bound to Il
shipped To all quarters rs food.
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Z Reef Trust cold storage Is a bn
\ thing. Yet 1t Is popular just now. I'll
!, rotten food turned out In the shape {
i diseased poultry from Beef Trust rOost
l. is thus touched upon by Health Con
missioner Whalen, Of Chicago. In h
annual report
"Cold storage Is one OF our presel
. necessities, but 1t Is evident that
T, has been shamefully misused by dl
:. honest men. While certain article
Il Of food are better after more or lc'
prolonged storage, certain fruits an
vegetables spoil No soon after remOv'
from the cold storage ms to give
p very unfavorable impression.
n "Again. poultry or game Is oftt
!, stored In an undrawn condition and
u afterward sold to the public. AttentiC