Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1891 — NEEDED LEGISLATION. [ARTICLE]

NEEDED LEGISLATION.

Baking Powder Bill by the - Minnesota Senate. From the St. Paul Dispatch. The recent newspaper discussion of the dangerous qualities of ammonia comes from the alarming increase of its use in baking powders. People who absorb it in small quantities from day to day suffer from slow ammonia poisoning. Taken internally in sufficient qnaptities it eats away the coating of the stomach and intestines and causes death. Slow ammonia poisoning produces various forms of stomach trouble. Not one woman in ten thousand would use an ammonia baking powder if she knew it. Such powders would not only undermine the health, but Ammonia imparts a sallow and blotched complexion. Following is the bill recently passed by the Minnesota senate? Its the danger signal which the law throws out for the protection of the people: A BUI for an Act to Regulate the Traffic In Baking Powder. Section I.—Any person who shall knowingly sell or procure the sale, or offer for sale of any package or can of Baking Powder, containing any Ammonia, in it. not distinctly, legibly and durably branded stamped or marked in a conspicuous place with the words in the English-language “This Ba king Powder contains Ammonia ’ in letters of groat pica, or any letters equivalent thereto 'in length, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and punished by a fine not less than S2O nor more than SSO; shatf be confined in the County Jail not less than ten or more than twenty days or by both fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court. Section 2.—The sale or offer for sale of the substance mentioned in the foregoing section in packages not stamped, marked, branded or labelled as therein required, shall be prima-facieevidence of knowledge of the character of said substance, on the part of the person selling or offering for tale and his employer. • Sections, —This Act shall be in force on and after its passage. Note.— An Incident occurred in the house when the senate bill came up for passage, in reference to an amendment proposed by Mr. Diment This was opposed by several members. Mr. Feig said that if the bill as It came from the senate was alright then the amendment wt.s all wrong. The amendment compelling the printing of the %rord “Ammon a” on the label only affected tho Royal Baking Powder, and no wmsder they felt the senate bill blow at them. Kerosene applications to the skin of animals, are remedied for lice and skin ailments, are too severe. One gill of kerosene added to a quart of cottoo* Mod oil it hatter. _