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Des Moines Register and Reader: The supreme conn. Thursday ..affirmed the decision at Waterloo against the Creamery Package Manufacturing Company, awarding damages to Henry F. Burk on account of the death of his minor son, who drank sulphuric acid out of a jug unlabelled by the company. The boy took the jug for one containing buttermilk, as the Creamery Package Company sold both butter milk and sulphuric acid in jugs. The employes of the creamery were allowed to drink buttermilk out. of the jugs. The 17-year-old son of Burk was lawfully at the creamery on January 2G, 1903, and asked an employe Sf he could drink buttermilk out. of a jug, The employe did not know the boy had an eye on the sulphuric acid jug, but thought he was looking- at the buttermilk jug sold to one Itiedel. The hoy died the next day. Creameries use sulphuric acid in testing milk and cream for butter fat. Tho code provides that if anyone de*
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Waterloo Times Tribune
Waterloo, Iowa, US
Fri, Mar 17, 1905
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