Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-07
State Board of Health Makes
Attack on Staple Article
of Food
is IMPROPERLY MANUFACTURED
Board Says Butter is Unfit to Eat Un-
less Cream is First Sterilzed -
swarms With Germs and Bacteria Of
Many Varieties = People Use Too
Much for Good of Health.
spec,al to r,mes-Repunncan.

state board of health, will be issued
on butter says: Butter as ordinarily
used is unquestionably one of the M
thiest things that comes upon the Ia
ble." This statement and claim Is
backed up by lengthy discussion
1t is claimed in the article that mil
lions of germs are in every pint OF
milk and that these germs stay large
ly with the butter fat. When the
milk is SKINNED the bulk Of the germs
are with the cream and when the
cream is made into butter the bulk OF
the germs again so into the butter.
The unskimmed milk and the butter
milk have but few of the germs. The
article claims that the only way to
make good butter is to pasteurize or
sterilize the milk, then sterilize the
cream and make the butter in vessel
where there will be little opportunity
for the air to get to it. Finally 1t
must be kept in a cool place and eaten
up inside of a couple of days, as but
ter kept longer than that is not ut to
eat.
1t is further claimed that much but
ter is not a good thing for most peo-
pie for the reason that it destroys the
acids of the stomach that are necessary
to digestion. In short butter is con-
demned and placed under suspicion
generally. 1t is pictured as swarming
with germs and bacteria Of all kinds
and descriptions and all the germs that
are contained in milk are concentrated
in the butter that is made from the
cream 1t is claimed that there are
about two billion to eight billion germs
in a pint of milk and it takes twenty
pints Of milk to furnish enough cream
to make a pound of butter Hence
when pound of butter. is made it
and bacteria.
A. D. Sheets. clerk in charge Of the
department of municipal accounts in
the state auditors office is at Waterloo
examining the accounts at the city hall
there. The report on the examination
Of accounts of Cedar Rapids will be
published in a few days. 1t is being
prepared by Inspector Pencil, who is
now In the east.
Dr. H. S. Miner of Fort Dodge, has
been appointed superintendent of the
detention hospital for inebriates at
Knoxville, to succeed DIR. w. S. Os-
born, resigned. DR.. Miner was one Of
about fifteen applicants.
He will assume charge Of the insti-
tuition about Nov. 1. DR.. Osborn will |
take up the practice of medicine in |
Colorado. His wife has consumption |
and he has found 1t necessary to re-
move to that state in the hope of bet
tering her condition.
DR.. Miner is homeopathic physi-
clan, being the first member Of this
school, it is understood, to be given
a state institution superintendent.
Several years ago an unsuccessful ef-
fort was made to pass a law which
would require the election of a homeo-
path to the SUPPLEMENTARY of state
DR.. Miner is graduate of the Hah-
nemann Medical college Of Chicago.
He is about so years Of age and has
been in the practice of medicine for |
more than twenty years. He has had
experience in the treatment Of inc |
briates and dipsomaniacs in institution
al work in the state of Nebraska. |
Since then he has made special study |
Of the subject and he goes into the
institution especially well |
equipped for the work.
Whether he will adopt the new poll
cy Of administering cures of the pat
emit medicine variety remains to be
disclosed by his administrations; The
objection of physicians to the so-called
cures Is not on account of the fact |
that they are drugs, but because the
formula is not known to the world
and the medical profession.
The SUPPLEMENTARY at Knoxville
pays $4,000 year and living for the
incumbent and his family. DR.. Miner
is married and has two children.
There remains for the board the Sc
lection of superintendent for the san
itarium near Iowa City at which tu-
berculosis will be treated under super
vision of the state. 1t is understood that
this appointment will not be made
for some time as the institution lacks
Of completion.
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Congressman Hull reached home
yesterday morning and will remain I'M
til November When seen at the home
Of DR.. H. c. Potter on Pleasant street
last night he expressed his view of the
primary vote on United States senator
in the foregoing language.
"When I returned from Washington
after adjournment" he said, Il took
the position that if could not get 35
per cent of the republican vote of this
district and some other man did,
should not want to be returned to the
house. So far as congressman are con-
cerned the candidate who fails to win
at the polls is down and out 1 am
ready to say that I shall abide by the
vote of the republicans at the pri-
mary
Captain Hull regrets that the fac
tons are not getting closer together.
The auditor of state has authorized |
the Union Savings bank of Union in
Hardin county. II has $4,000 capital
A. P. Mason is president and w. II. |
Reynolds is the cashier.
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Special to es-Republican.
Humboldt. Oct. 1.-THE Humboldt |
lecture courses for the past two win
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that six entertainments and lectures !