Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-01-27
A JAR OF JELLY ANALYzED
State University Chemists Discover
Many Foreign Substances in it to
Fool the Housewives

to disobey the spirit of the law while
obeying its letter. A jar of jelly,
analysed in the pure food laboratory
of the University of Kansas the other
day, said on it's label that the product
contained almost three-fourths corn
syrup, about a fourth apple, was plum
flavor and contained artificial color
ing and a trace of phosphate.
The label may obey the law, but it
doesn't convey much to the housewife
who buys that jelly. The university
chemist who examined the product
said the corn syrup was used because
it was a cheap way of getting a sweet
taste.s for glucose, commonly called
corn syrup, is cheaper than sucrose,
real sugar. The chemist found that
the apple, referred to on the label, was
pressed apple Feelings of an inferior
quality with a high bacterial and mold
count. The words plum flavor
were purely for psychological effect.
The jelly was colored with analine
dye and the analysis showed that
about half Of the ash residue was
phosphate.
Yet in spite of the fact that the
jelly was not wholesome and that it
defrauded by substituting inferior ma
terial it could be sold under the food
and drug act. Apple pulp and peel
ms frequently are used in commercial
jellies and if the apples are sound, are
a desirable base for jellies. But in
many cases such apple by-products,
cores, Feelings and such are rotten.
They contain millions of germs and
mold spores. Boiling of the jelly kills
the germs and in the jelly referred to
more than 20O.O00,00O dead bacteria
were found.
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Leap From Burning Car.-Twenty
passengers jumped from Union Pa
cific motor car at Lindsborg the other
night when oil and gasoline in a waste
pan under the gasoline motor caught
fire as the car was pulling into the
station at Lindsborg. The Lindsborg
volunteer fire department put out the
blaze before the flames reached the
12O-gallon gasoline tank.
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Wichita Commissioner Dead. E.
Howard, city commissioner and a pio-
neer miller is dead in Wichita of
pleurisy after a short illness. He was
50 years old. Mr.. Howard was recog-
nized as one of the leaders in the
movement twenty years ago fol. cheap
er freight rates in Kansas.
Jail Bonds Void?-The s112, 900
bonds issued to pay for Sedgwick
County's new jail are invalid because
of technicality. State Auditor w.
E. Davis refused to register them
when they were presented on the
ground that they were voted at an
election called by insufficient notice.
Groveland Elevator Burned.-Col-
burn Brothers Milling Company's ele-
vator at Groveland, burned recently,
destroying three or four thousand
bushels of wheat. A granary, hay
barn and other small buildings were
also burned.
Killed in Runaway.-G. w. Soles,
IS years old, was killed in a runaway
at Effingham recently. He had lived
in Kansas nearly half a century.
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Votes New High SchooI.-Bonds for
a new $751; 900 junior high school build
ing were voted on favorably in a mu-
nicipal election held at Arkansas City
recently.
Oldest Kansas Mason Dies.-John
A. Westmoreland, "a years old, the
Oldest Odd Fellow in Kansas in point
of membership and believed to have
been a member of the Masonic order
longer than any other man in Kansas,
is dead at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. Matthew German, two miles west
of Kansas City, Kan. He had been a
Mason and an Odd Fellow sixty-two
years
Injured by Dynamite.-D. F. DON
myer, SO years old, farmer living
near Salina, is in hospital suffering
from dynamite wound. Donmyer had
several sticks of dynamite in a boat
and was preparing to dynamite a fish
hole in the Smoky Hill river The
dynamite exploded prematurely-
Live Wire Kills Farmer.>-Louis Day,
q farmer residing near Deerfield, was
electrocuted when he came in contact
with a live wire. Deerfield and Hol-
comb were in total darkness while $50
volts of electricity was passing
through Days body.
Wealthy Stock Raiser Dead.-Mike
Gleason, who lived about fifteen miles
northwest of Kiusley. is dead Mr..