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Show Tainted Food Affects Scores Peoria, 111. Veal loaf was blamed Thursday for the illness of nearly 200 persons stricken with ptomaine poisoning pois-oning after the annual picnic of the cily Christian Endeavor society. A halt dozen of the cases were so serious ser-ious as to prohibit the removal of patients pa-tients from their homes to hospitals, and physicians despaired of the lives of two girls. Two clergymen were among the sufferers whom doctors were called to attend several hours after church leaders and young people concluded the day's pitting with a banquet spread beneath trees. It was. expected that both Rev. J. Summers, retired, and Rev. R. F. Joop, pastor of the First Evangelical church, would recover. |