Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1909 — Bleached Flour under Ban of Food Commissioner. [ARTICLE]

Bleached Flour under Ban of Food Commissioner.

Bleached flour in the state of Indiana is under the ban. H. E. Barnard, food and drug commissioner to the State Board of Health, has sent out letters of notification to the millers and flour merchants that the recent food inspection decision by James Wilson, secretary of agriculture, prohibiting the manufacture and sale of bleached flour, unless so labeled, after June 9, would be enforced. Bleaching is a very profitable way of raisin the grade of flour inexpensively. It is not known that Indiana millers are worse offenders than the average. The notification is merely that the law will be enforced. In the hammer throw at the state high school meet at Lafayette Saturday Conwell of Van Buren threw a hammer which struck Prof. B. M. Hoak of Purdue, one of the judges, in the abdomen. He was knocked down, and is in a serious condition.