Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-11-27
LETTER TO THE public
Ice, One of the Most Valuable Food
Products-Where Ice Is Used for
Food-The Best Natural Ice.

Food-The Best Natural Ice.
That ice for food preservation is
valuable there is little question. It
is and the world knows it. That ice
for food refrigeration, where the ice
does not come in contact with the
food, either as ice or vapor, nor is
used in any other way for consump-
ton eliminates all question as to the
particular kind, natural or manufac-
tured, the question of cost and avail
abilSy alone determining that matter,
but where used as a food product,
that is, in melted form for drinking
purposes, shaved, broken or ground
for mixing with foods or for sick
room purposes. the question of the
kind of ice is very important and a
sanitary one.
The Value of Natural Ice Induces Imi-
Observation-Disclosures Ice Has No
Time for ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Cleansing of Water by
Natural Freezing.
Natural ice is formed in the open
air and thus is free of the contain
mating elect of steam, smoke, human
eXhalations and excretions, mechan-
ical scents and humanity imported i'm
purities. The very cold which pro-
duces, it, is ozonic and insures great
er atmospheric purity. Frost-bound
and snow covered earth assures a
more Clearly condition of watershed
supplying its source and crystalliza.
| tion-beginning at the surface and
I a tnn Il .,.I
| lines evicts all solids, chemically de"
streys or forces out the mineral salts
and even drives before it the bulk of
! the microbes, PSshins all in rapid
precipitation toward the water depths,
The swifter the current allowing
freezing and the greater its depth the
| better, for then clear and solid ice,
! free of bubbles will result and tho
cold and lack of air will very shortly
destroy what few microbes fail of be
ing driven down and out by the crys,
tallizing process.
The Real Dangers of Drinking Water
Vanish In Natural Ice.
The three great dangers OF the
! human race from drinking water are:
First, the production of disease from
/ The presence of bacteria owing to a
polluted source of supply. Second,
1 the like production from uncleanly
and unsanitary methods and utensilE
used in handling and for drinking the
same, and third, from the presence o!
Injurious quantities of mineral salts
and vegetable deposits in the water,
Filtration, If thorough, may eliminate
the greater part of the latter two but
will scarcely affect the former, but
| natural freezing of sustained duration
will practically clNan the water OF all
three, first by capitalization and sec
ond, by starvation. Then, with ordi-
nary care for cleanliness in the melt
pure, clean, soft and sweet, thoroughly
wholesome. In fact, ice water from
natural ice melted, is better, safer.
more healthful than water drawn from
well, river, lake, spring or cistern, not
secured as Ice, then melted Rather
curious statement, you will think or
say, but abundantly proven by thor
ough tests, experiments and analyses
o. the best scientists of the day.
Melted Natural Ice Is Only Safe
Water to Drink.
Natural Ice when melted is pro.
nounced by the highest authority I'm
science to be superior to bottled water
which is humanity handled, distilled
water which is lifeless, or melted ice
OF any other kind Enthusiastically
rheumatic sufferers say it is the mest
beneficial as a curative.
Your Duty In the Matter, After the
knowledge Here Given.
You should insist on natural ice.
river ice by preference, carefully har-
vested, sanitarily stored, sanitarily
delivered and you should wash such
ice before putting 1t in your refriger-
ator. What of It you use for drinking
should be put In a sterilized percolat-
or, preferably of stoneware and II
doubtful of safety even then, drawn
for drinking into individual sterilized
drinking cups-but you must first be
assured of your ice supply and to get
this natural ice. thoroughly seasoned
(stored for a month or more) from
deep water river cutting, sanitariiy
housed and sanitarily delivered
clean handled to clean wagons then
for you.
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