Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-02-01

"'We note copy of your letter of
September 2Sth. saying that Armour
4 Co.'S oleo was found to contain DO.
racic acid. and you have reported the
same to the commemorative attorney.
beg to say that We have given instruc-
tons to the OleOmargarine department
TO cease using any personalities II
they are using it,"
zee Armour 4 Co. have al.
ready begun the manufacture Of sat-
sage for Kentucky at Louisville. while
an agent of Swift & Co. states that his
firm have installed a separate de.
partmcnt In the Chicago plant In or.
Ter to make sausage without l,OraciC
lcid FOR KENTUCKY AND PENN.
SYLvANIA'
The following Associated Press dis.
patch appeared In the Chicago daily
papers of October IL. 1906:
Philadelphia, Pa. Oct. II. 10OG.--On
the charge that Armour 4 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 Commissioners
Warren. who caused warrants to be
issued for several Of the company's
agents. sent his assistant. oliver d.
Schick. accompanied by n. b. Critcfi'
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
"tiOctOred" were discovered on Sept. II
and as the pure food act 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 Falls.
Niles, Mich. Oct. 10.-tSpecial. J.
Judge Coolidge to-day refused to grant
the petition made by Armour 4 Co. tC
have the Injunction forbiddlng the com
pnry from selling sausage In Michigan
dissolved. The injunction was Oh
taIned by State Food Commissions,
Bird on the grounds that the sausages
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
the sausages contained certain adulter
ants.
The following dispatch published II
the Chicago Record.Hernld, Oct. 81
1907. explains itself:
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 3O.-Wlllian
Huxtable, representing Swift 4 Co., ant
Claude byron, representing Armour 1
Co.. were to-day hound over to the dis
trict court on the charge OF vi0latin,
the pure food law by selling unbranded
meats. The Cudahy company agreed Il
abide by the decision In the cases Of tn,
other two concerns.
Chicago Health Department annua
report, 1907, page "a: -" 4
number Of samples Of butter. cheese
liquid eggs. sausage and potted or can
ned meats and other canned foods hav,
been found to be preserved with bOri'
acid during the past year."
During the annual convention Of TIN
American Meat Packers Association
which opened In Chicago Oct. Z. 1901
the committee appointed to ask the gov
crnment to return to the packers meat
rejected and condemned by govern
ment inspectors, made the following
report: "No provision has been mad
for the return Of meats to inspected es
adjustments after they have been re
jected, hut your committee expects
when this IL fully considered by the dc
partment. relief will DO granted"
In other words, meats condemned
because Of cancer, tuberculosis, lumpy
jaw and the like will DO returned I,
the packers!
What will the packers do with thi
condemned meat?
Ship 1t abroad. or sell It to the peo
pie OF Chicago?
People are beginning to appreclat,
the enOrmity 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.publishe
from New York paper. In the Chlcag
Daily News Of November 3, 1905, W
find the following:
I'm the meantime physicians, az wei
as the public Mt large, continue to won
der whether either one of the autl,Orl
ties Just mentioned may find II pOssibl
to correct some Of the abuses that ar
most frequent, says the New Yorl