Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 190, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1913 — NEW EXHIBIT AT STATE FAIR [ARTICLE]

NEW EXHIBIT AT STATE FAIR

How Public Is Defrauded In Foods and Drugs Will Be Shown. A new exhibit of interest to both farm and town people will be shown at the Indiana state fair by the department of food and drugs of the State Board of Health. It will be made up of weights and measures, foods, drugs and dairy products, and will include a- modern sanitary grocery and an old fashioned unsanitary grocery. The weights and measures will display, many kinds of condemned scales and measures which dishonest merchants use to defraud customers, and through this exhibit the importance of every town having an inspector or weights and measures will be shown. The food and drug

exhibit will show some of the frauds practiced on the public through adulterations and cheap substitutes, as well as methods of candling eggs, that consumers may guard against stale products of this kind. The drug exhibit will show how the public is defrauded by many patent medicines and toilet preparations. The Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce is organizing a state fair party of 1,500 wholesale and retail merchants, and manufacturers, to attend the fair on the opening day, September Bth. The party will go in a delegation, not only for a day of pleasure but to look into the possibilities of the exposition as a factor in the commercial advancement of Indiana. The party will have dinner on the grounds and attend the hone show, at night—Adv.