Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1916 — WOULD MARKET WHALE MEAT [ARTICLE]

WOULD MARKET WHALE MEAT

Whalers Insist Flesh Is Equal to Any Eaten by Man—Season’s Catch Big. Seattle, Wash—The maiiager of a large whaling station at Akutan. Alaska, Who has just returned from his season’s work, reports that his company took -301 males; yielding 400 tons of freph meat, excellent in flavor and highly nutritious. An effort is being made to place whale meat pn the market as a table food, whalers insisting that this flesh is equal to any eaten by man, but not used ashore because of ignorance,