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...Washington admitted that there had been graft in the supply department, that the beef and biscuits had given 70% of the army fever or scurvy, and that the water supply had been mismanaged. But when George Dewey, now Admiral, steamed into the cold, sunny harbor of New York, he was greeted with more noise than all the Spanish warships made together, and people were so glad to see him that they bought him a house in Washington, which he almost immediately gave to his wife...
when we tasted the bully beef...
...walks into a restaurant and orders a vegetable dinner was pointed out accusingly by the National Shoe Retailers' Association in Manhattan last week, called the real culprit in high shoe price the association declared is coming. The less beef eaten, the less cattle killed, the higher the price of leather, the shoe men explained deftly. A 15% to 20% price increase was predicted because of the growth of vegetarianism...
...Newark, N. J., Mae C. Collins, 307 pounds, waddled into a butcher shop. On the walls hung red, juicy, uncooked animals. Under the glass counter reposed cool, damp, bulging joints of beef. On the counter, in the icebox, lay bloody fowl; flaccid livers; grisly, delicious knuckles; dainty, pink and white lamb chops. The gullet of Mae C. Collins gaped a little. Her small, pleasant, piggy eyes, twinkling behind rolls of fat as round and red as hamburgers, finally fixed on a ponderous porterhouse steak. Seizing it, she waddled out of the butcher shop...
...animal had to be fed through a tube. As the aesophogus healed, there was a stricture or contraction which prevented swallowing and before each meal this had to be opened with the tube, which, removed after 15 minutes, left the passage free. The patient then ate raw chopped beef and milk and egg without difficulty. So well did the dog come to realize her plight and her need of assistance, that when feeding time came and she was let out of her cage, she ran at once to the operating table and jumped up, standing quietly for the insertion...