Roosevelt Urges Federal Inspection of Chicago Stockyards
President Roosevelt releases Reynolds Neill report urging drastic federal inspection of stockyards and packing houses and their products in interstate commerce. The preliminary findings condemn dirty facilities, unsafe meat handling, and lack of enforceable inspection under current law with fees proposed per animal slaughtered.
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Roosevelt
Chicago
Reynolds-Neill
Congress
Senate
House of Representatives
James Bronson Reynolds
Charles P. Neill
Bureau of Animal Industry
Department of Agricuture
Bureau
Reynolds
Nell
Howeer
Messrs. Reynolds and Neill
Golden Medical Discovery and legislation urged by Roosevelt
The document extols Dr. R V Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a blood and digestion tonic derived from forest roots, claimed to purify blood and cure stomach liver and bowel ailments. It opposes substitutions, promotes Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets for constipation, and urges laws to curb abuses and to empower inspection of meat products for interstate commerce. It ends with a call by Theodore Roosevelt for Senate amendment No 29 to the 1907 agricultural appropriations act.
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Nature
R.V. Pierce
Invalids Hotel and
Surgica Institute
Buffalo
N. Y
Desler
Pierce
Department of Agriculture
Senate
Theodore Roosevelt
Report on Conditions in Chicago Stock Yards Slaughterhouses
J B Reynolds and Commissioner Neill submitted a partial report to the president detailing unsanitary conditions in Chicago stockyards packing houses. They describe filthy floors, rotten wood fixtures, poor lighting and ventilation, bare or waterlogged workspaces, and lack of lavatories and proper cleanliness in meat handling areas. They call for national government and city action to raise sanitation and worker health standards.
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J. B. Reynolds
Neill
Chicago
Reynolds
New York City
43 & Rule
New York
Lisbon Handshake Club Fines Members for Token
An ant handshaking society forms in Lisbon with fines of 2 shillings for each handshake. The collected fines go into a pool to buy lottery tickets for members who follow the rules.
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Lisbon
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