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...your beef is "embalmed," if there is alum in your bread, if your pickles are deleterious, if there is caffein in your bottled beverages, then the President will have ignored the admonition of "Old Borax." Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, longtime (1883-1912) chief chemist of the Department of Agriculture, known as "Old Borax," called at the White House last week. He called because he believed that the provisions of the Pure Food and Drug Act, drawn under his supervision, had been weakened by the administrative orders of successive Secretaries of Agriculture ever since 1907. He brought evidence demanding changes...
...situation unprecedented in U. S. open championships was resolved by officials, who ruled that another sweltering 18 holes must be played. Out they trudged, after cooling drinks and luncheon. People said: "Thin Legs cannot stand it. He will sweat and sicken. Here will count the beef of Fat Legs...
Heart-rending stories of men who broke teeth or cracked their jaws in futile attacks on a restaurant steak will soon be no more, if the government succeeds in perfecting instruments with which to measure the toughness of beef. The Department of Agriculture pointed out that tender meat is worth more than tough meat (which sounds reasonable enough), and has accordingly requested the Bureau of Standards to devise suitable mechanical tests...
...easy to develop tests to compute the strength of egg-shells, but beef has so far been harder. The Bureau expects to develop a machine to measure the tensile and tortional strains of each little fiber of beef, but is careful to check the findings by the teeth of expert beef eaters. Just what use will be made of these tests the Department of Agriculture does not state. To the casual observer it would seem that all the packers and restaurateurs would rise in a body to protest against their ancient prerogative of serving tough steak. What is more likely...
...restaurants and the Union reported a record breaking consumption of salads, feed drinks and other hot weather delicacies. Hot roast beef and soup were on the menu but the waiters declared that hardly anyone ordered them. The chief complaint of the waiters was that they were kept too busy filling the glasses of ice water which were emptied almost as fast as they were filled...