Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-12-14

"'We note copy Of your letter of
September 2Sth. saying that Armour
4 Co.'S OleO was found to contain bo.
raclc acid, and you have reported the
same to the commemorative attorney.
beg TO say that we have given instruc.
tlons to the Oleomargarine department
to cease using any preservatives II
they are using IT,"
| "s Armour 4 Co. have al.
ready begun the manufacture Of sau.
sage for Kentucky at Louisville. while
an agent Of Swift Il Co. states that his
firm have installed a separate de.
partment In the Chicago plant In or
der to make sausage without boracit
acid FOR KENTUCKY AND PENN
] SYLvAN1A.'
The following Associated Press dis
patch appeared in the Chicago daily
papers of October ~, 1906:
Philadelphia. Pa, Oct. II, 10O0.-On
the charge that Armour & Co. have
been selling meat preserved by borlc
acid to local consumers State officials
went to Washington to-day to urge
action by the federal authorities
state Dairy and Food Commissioners
Warren, who caused warrants to be
issued for several Of the company's
agents, sent his assistant, Oliver ID
Schick. accompanied by N. u. Crltch
field, state secretary of agriculture, tC
lay the case before Secretary Wilson
and DIR. II. II. Wiley ut Washington.
The meats alleged to have beer
''dOctOred" were discovered on Sept. II
and us the pure food net became opera
tive on Sept. Commissioner Warren
declares the company Is liable under
the federal laws for violation of this
act.
The following appeared on the sec.
ond page Of part !, Of the Chicago
Sunday Tribune Of October 20, 1907.
1t speaks for ITSELF.
RULING OF MICHIGAN JUDGE
BLOW TO ARMOUR COMPANY.
Petition to Have Injunction Against
Sale OF Sausage Dissolved Refused
Another Plea Fails.
Niles. Mich, Oct. 10.-rSpecial. =
Judge Coolidge today refused to grant
the petition madc by Armour & Co. to
have the injunction forbldding the com.
pany from selling sausage In Michigan
dissolved. The injunction was oh.
tained by State Food Commissioned
Bird on the grounds that the sausagcs
were adulterated in violence Of the
pure food laws.
Judge Coolidge also refused to sus.
tain the temporary injunction obtained
by Armour 4 Co. forbIddIng Bird from
posting certain bulletins showing that
tile sausages contained certain adulter.
ants.
The following dispatch published In
tho Chicago Rccord.Herald, Oct. 81
1907, explains itself:
Lincoln, Neb.. Oct. 3O.-WlllIan
luxtable, representing Swift 4 Co., and
Claude byron, representing Armour 4
Co.. were to-day bound over to the dis
trict court on the charge Of violating
the pure food law by selling unbranded
meats. The Cudahy company agreed t.
abide by the decision In the cases Of tn,
other two concerns.
Chicago Health Department annual
report, 1907, page o.: /" q
number Of samples Of butter. cheese
liquid eggs, sausage and potted or can
ned meats and other canned foods have
been found to be preserved with borit
acid during the past year."
During the annual convention of the
American Meat Packers Association
which opened In Chicago Oct. Z, 1907
the committee appointed to ask the gov
ernment to return to the packers meat
rejected ana condemned by govern
ment inspectors, made the following
report: "NO provision has been made
for the return Of meats to inspected On
tablishments after they have been re
jected, but your committee expects
when this II fully considered by the dc
phrtment, relief will be granted"
In other words, meats condemned
because of cancer, tuberculosis. lumpy
jaw and the like will be returned tc
the packers!
What will the packers do with this
condemned meat?
Ship 1t abroad, or sell 1t to the peo
pie of Chicago?
People are beginning to appreciate
the enOrmlty of the withdrawal of Chi
cago city inspectors from the big pack
Ing houses.
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Does bOrlc acid cause appendicitis
In the course of an article re-publishet
from New York paper, in the Chicagt
Daily News of November 3, 1906, w
find the following:
I'm the meantime physicians, as wei
as the public at large, continue to won
der whether either one of the autl0rl
ties just mentioned may find 1t pOsslbl,
to correct some of the abuses that arr
most frequent, says the New YOrl
Post. The troublesome problem of thu
use Of bOrlc acid as food preserva
tive, for instance, has Just beer
brought to the attention Of the medical
world once more by the appearance II