Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1911 — “Beef Soul Celebration.” [ARTICLE]

“Beef Soul Celebration.”

Seattle, Wash. —Steamer reports tell of the ceremony of the “beef soul celebration” which took place in Tokyo recently for the purpose of appeasing the souls of thousands of cows and oxen killed during the recent war to supply the army in Manchuria. It was estimated that 130 a day were slaughtered. A monument was erected “to prevent the souls of these slaughtered animals rising in retribution against the butchers.”