Roosevelts call for a sweeping meat inspection reform
The president urges immediate federal action to inspect all stock yards and meat products in interstate commerce. He highlights revolting Chicago conditions, inadequate laws, and the need for fees financed by slaughtered animal charges to fund robust supervision.
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James Bronson Reynolds
Charles P. Neill
Chicago
Congress
Bureau of Animal Industry
Department of Agriculture
Bureau
Messrs. Reynolds and Neill
Reynolds
New York City
Saturday Evening Post
J. Ogden Armour
Beef Trust
Armours
Upton Sinclair
Everybody’s Magazine
Sinclair
Mr. Armour
Armour
Armour & Co
Thomas F. Dolan
Boston
Abattoir No Sample Label Text
Package label notes contents inspected under the act of March 3 1891 following formal inspection procedures for meat products.
A Stone Barometer From Northern Finland
A Stone Barometer describes a large stone used by northern Finland inhabitants as a weather indicator. The stone darkens to black or gray before rain and lightens with white spots in fair weather, likely a fossil mixed with clay containing rock salt niter or ammonia reacting to atmospheric dampness.
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Finland
The Many Virtues of Salt in Household Use
Salt is praised for fire control in a chimney and for preventing scorching under baking tins. It outlines stain removal with salt and vinegar on teacups and freshly spilled ink on carpet, soot on carpet, beef stings and spider bites, and reviving low coal fires. It also notes salt for carpet sweeping to deter moths.
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Nicholas
United States
Catttle
Armour
Canning
Armour Establishment
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New York Journal
W. E. Pierce
Pierce
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Orville F. Purdy
Kings County
N. Y
New York
Coun
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Spain
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Greenburg
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