Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 153, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1913 — WORKS FOR PURE SODA WATER [ARTICLE]

WORKS FOR PURE SODA WATER

Mrs. Julian Heath Heads Delegation That Visits Shops to Stop the Sale of "Poison.”

New York.—“We are going after the soda water fountains and see to it that customers are no longer sold poison to drink,” declared Mrs. Julian Heath, national president of the Housewives’ league. Accompanied by a band of fellow members Bhe entered several soda water emporiums on the upper west side and put the clerkß through an inquisition. After admitting that the sirups, ingredients and sanitary arrangements were excellent, she proceeded to thp lower east side. In several places they found a drink which, Mrs. Heath declared, was artificially colored and nothing short of a itnixture of alcohol and sugar.