Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-11-30

September 18th, saying that Armour
4 Co.'S oleo was found to contain bo-
raclc acid, and you have reported the
same to the commonwealth's attorney.
beg to say that we have given lnstruc.
tions to the oleomargarlne department
to ccase using any preservativcs II
they are using IT,"
e" Armour 4 Co. have nj.
ready begun the manufacture Of sau.
sage for Kentucky at Louisville. while
nm agent Of Swift 4 Co. states that his
firm have Installed separate de-
partment In the Chicago plant I'm or.
der to make sausage without boracic
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, 1000.-On
the charge that Armour & Co. have
been selling meat preserved by boric
acid to local consumers State officials
went to Washington to-day to urge
action by the federal authorities.
State Dairy and Food Commissioner
Warren, who caused warrants to be
issued for several Of the company's
agents, sent his assistant, oliver ID.
Schick. accompanied by N. b. Critch-
field, State secretary of agriculture, to
lay the case before Secretary Wilson
and DR.. II. II. Wiley at Washington.
The meats alleged to have been
"doctored" were discovered OH Sept. II
and as 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 1, Of the Chicago
Sunday Tribune Of October 20, 1907.
It 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-(special.l-
Judge Coolidge to-day refused to grant
the petition made BY Armour 4 Co. to
have the injunction forbidding the com.
pany from selling sausage In Michigan
dissolved. The injunction wns oh.
tained by State Food Commissioner
Bird on the grounds that the sausagcs
were adulterated In violence Of the
pure food laws.
Judge Coolidge also refused to sus.
tnln the temporary injunction obtained
by Armour & Co. forbiddlng Bird from
posting certain bulletins showing that
the sausages contained certain adulter.
ants.
Tho following dispatch published IN
the Chicago Rccord.IIcrald. Oct. 81.
1907. explains itself:
Lincoln, Ncb, Oct. 3O.-WilIiam
Huxtable, representing Swift 4 Co.. an,l
Claude byron, representing Armour 4
Co, were to-day hound over to the dIs.
trict court on tho charge Of violating
the pure food law by selling unbranded
meats The Cudahy company agreed to
abide by the decision In the cases Of the
other two concerns
Chicago Health Department annual
report, 1907, page o.: s a
number Of samples Of butter. cheese
liquid eggs, sausage ana potted or can
ned meats and other canned foods have
been found to be preserved with bOriC
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 meats
rejected and condemned by govern
ment inspectors, made the following
report: mo provision has been made
for the return of meats to inspected es-
Establishments after they have been re.
jected, but your committee expects
when this Is fully considered by the de-
partment, relief will be granted"
In other words, meats condemned
because OF cancer, tuberculosis, lumpy,
Jaw ana the like will be returned to
tho 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-publishei
from New York paper, In the Chicago
Daily News of November 3, 1905, W.
find the following:
"Ip the meantime physicians, as wei
as the public at large, continue to won
der whether either one of the authors
ties just mentioned may find 1t possible
to correct some OF the abuses that art
most frequent, says the New YOrl
Post The troublesome problem Of thu
use of b0ric acid az food preserva
tive, for instance, has Just beer
brought to the attention Of the medical
world once more by the appearance II
a recent number OF the Lancet (IOn
don) OF an article in which such ar
authority rs DIR. Reginald Harrison
past vice president and Hunterian pro