Tennessee food law on misbranding and package marks
Weekly Chats With the Consumers By the Tennessee Food and Drugs Department outlines amendments from 1913 on misbranding rules for package contents, marking in largest units, tolerances for small packages, and uniform standards with the U S Department of Agriculture. It notes which goods must be marked, how weight and measure should be stated, allowances for packing variance, and dates when the new law takes effect, warning shoppers to monitor labels on cereals crackers and confectionery and that some stock may still be unmarked until sold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blate Pure Food and Drug Inspector
United States Department of Agriculture
Department
United States
The Sanitary Bread Scandal of the Province
In aged prose the tale recalls a bread maker Sweltzer the Baker and workers Black Joe and Smith the Grocer. A delivery fail and dusty, unwrapped loaves spread illness under Sanitary Food Laws enforced by the Food and Drug Inspection. The lesson: packaging protects the public from disease.
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Sweltzer
Black Joe
Smith
Joe
Department of State
Civil Service Examinations Announced in Atlanta
Mr. B B Hare secretary announces August and September tests at 204 to 208 Post Office Building Atlanta for Telephone Operator Junior Civil Engineer Stenographer and Typewriter Plant Physiologist Entomological Ranger Graduate Nurse Dietitian Bookkeeper and other positions with salaries from 3.04 per day to 4200 dollars. Eligibles will be certified to vacancies in Washington D C and other agencies.
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B. B. Hare
Fifth Civil Service District
Atlanta
Washington
Washington, D. C
Bureau of Plant Industry
Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Entomology
Rocky Mountains
Pacific Coast ‘States
United States Public Health Service
Palinars Hospital
Spartanburg
Galary
Numerous federal job openings across agencies with September 1914 deadlines
The notice lists diverse vacancies including Junior Engineer, Junior Chemist, Clerk in Panama Canal Service, Library Cataloguer, and Expert Radio Admin. Eligibles will be certified to vacancies in the Bureau of Chemistry, Agriculture, Mines, Standards, Animal Industry, and other bureaus. Deadlines span September 8 to September 28, 1914, with salaries from 720 to 2100 dollars and ages 18 to 60.
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Charleston, D. C
Navy Yard
Haskell Institute
Lawrence
Kansas
Bureau of Chemistry
Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Mines
Bureau of Soils
Bureau of Standards
Bureau of Animal Industry
Panama Canal Service
Engineer Department
J. Wheeling
W. Va
Washington, D. C
Ton
D. C
Fabr
Naval
Radio
Rather Hard on the Teacher
A critique of observer bias in evaluating teachers from outside the classroom. The quote cites Mary C. Robinson on how observers judge alertness, enthusiasm, and health without actually engaging with teaching, contrasting idealized and flawed perceptions of pedagogy.
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Mary C. Robinson
Atlantic
Sloan's Liniment Aimed at Insect Bite Relief
An old public notice-style ad touts Sloan's Liniment as a preventive for disease from mosquitoes and other insects. It claims the product neutralizes infections from bites and rusty nails and disinfects cuts bruises and sores, urging purchase at a local drugstore with a money back satisfaction claim.
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Sloan
Out of the Way German Inns Name Odd Places
Berlin boasts quirky inn names such as the Angry Louise the Comfortable Lamb the Cold Frog the Dirty Parlor the Bloody Bones the Boxers Den the Four Hundred Weight Man and the Mun Willet. A suburban landlord near a cemetery nicknamed the Last Tear draws mourners to this unusual locale.
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Germany
Berlin
Louise
Mun Willet
East Tennessee & Western North Carolina Railroad Stockholders Meeting
The Annual Meeting of stockholders of The East Tennessee & Western North Carolina Railroad Company will be held at the company office in Johnson City Tennessee on September 9, 1914 at 12 noon to elect a Board of Directors and conduct other business. Also notice to creditors of G M Thomas deceased to present claims to administrator Joe J Thomas within the legal time or be barred.
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North Carolina Railroad Company
Johnson City
Tenn
East ‘Tennessee & Western North Nina Railroad Company
Tenessee
John §. Wise
G. M. Thomas
Thomas
Joe J. Thomas
P. Q. Miller
J. B
Washington County
Tennessee
P. C. Wicks
Exparte
Gray
Porttown
Pactolus
Kingport
Cameron
Val Tenn
Speers Ferry
Hil
Port Mackmore
Dungminon
St. Paul
Dante
Virginia
Unicol
Erwin
Loves
Chestoa
Unaka Springs
Huotdale
Greeny Mountain
Toccane
Charles T. Mandel
J. Campion
Johson City
East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad
Minville River
Central Standard
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