Eureka Reporter | 1906-06-22 | Page 2 | Chicago Meat under Ban

CHICAGO MEAT UNDER BAN no meats used in house of commons come from stock yards city london chicago meat again formed the subject ot several ques eions in the house of commons mon day beach conservative eon of chancellor ol 01 the exchequer asked war secretary hal dane what the quantity ot chicago canned meat was supplied to the troops in south africa during the late war and what proportion of enteric deaths ought more properly to have been described as due to ptomaine pol the secretary replied that rather more than halt the canned meat supplied to the british troops n south africa during the late war came from the united states he could not say how much of this came from chicago replying ne plying to a question based on the discovery in the dining room of the house of commons of a box marked armour s st louis chicago and kansas city chickens mr ja coby chairman of the kitchen corn assured the house that no food of any kind used in the house of corn mons comes from chicago mr ja coby added that he was making an in as to how the box came on the premises