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Beware Of Food Samples.

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Parent Issue
Day
21
Month
April
Year
1899
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Beware of Food Samples.

Quite recently in New York two deaths occurred from poisoning by use of powders sent to the victims by mail. In Leavenworth, Kas., the other day nearly every doctor in town was called to attend children who had gathered up, eaten, and been made ill by samples of an article left at houses by canvassers for advertising purposes.

Alum baking powders have always been favorite articles for this sampling business. Yet there is nothing more liable to lead to danger than the practice of using the various samples of baking powder left at the door. They are presented by irresponsible parties, in appearance are not distinguishable from arsenic, and indeed, in Indiana some time since one package was found, after it had caused the death of the housewife, to have been mixed with that poison.

It is safer to refuse all samples of food or medicine offered at the door. Pure cream tartar baking powders sell upon their merits, and are never peddled or sampled.