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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1906
Page
8
The article argues that sale of adulterated foods is not forbidden but must be properly labeled. It critiques misleading color labeling and frames current food practices as turning the stomach of modern mankind into a chemical laboratory.
Readers are urged to care about the pure food bill as adulteration and dangerous chemicals flood meats medicines and drinks. The article then shifts to Senator Heyburn of Idaho, his career, birthplace in 1852, marriage to Miss Yeatman, and his public stature as a portly, commanding speaker in Washington.
A survey of proposals to curb alcohol sales and adulterated foods highlights McCumber's anti liquor campaigns and Hepburn's influence in the House. Wiley the chemist leads the pure food cause with the poison squad experiments showing harmful effects.
The discussion frames adulterated foods and medicines as a public danger, noting that labels must reveal ingredients though enforcement remains weak. Senator Weldon B. Heyburn leads the drive, with support from honest manufacturers and physicians while opponents fear corrupt influences.
The Iowa house approved by 55 to 20 a measure excluding base ball from Sunday amusement bans and sent it toward the senate. The bill would forbid theaters Chautauquas and other amusements on Sundays with base ball as the exception.
John Burns, jailed for lifetime reprieve in Stillwater case, died after breaking jail in Manterville. The escapee remains at large as Judge John H. Poster of Evansville is renominated for Congress in Indiana. Vesuvius erupts near Naples during royal visit. Philip Campbell of Pittsburg Kansas wins renomination by acclamation in Kansas GOP convention.
A patient described severe female distress including headaches nervousness and melancholy. Doctors advised cheerfulness but her blues persisted until using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She reports restored strength buoyancy and relief from female derangements.
The Iowa Central Ry announces February 15 to April 7 reduced one way fares to California and western destinations with specials via Kansas City to Los Angeles and San Francisco. Another program offers round trip excursions from Minneapolis to Minnesota Dakotas Manitoba Saskatchewan and other regions with rate one fare plus two dollars and liberal limits. Also reduced round trips to North and South Dakota via Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway on Tuesdays in March and April. California excursions tied to Shrine convention run April 25 to May 5 with return by July 31. Nickel Plate Road invites eastbound travelers from Chicago to New York Boston and beyond with three through trains daily and low fares.
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