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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 30, 1904)
ASTORIA, ORECJON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1904. PAGE THREE. ' z t MEATS FISH GAME - POULTRY IIUIHHIMHMMIHHMHHMMMIMNNIIMHiHIIHMHIIHNMMiHHnNMMNtNH Everthing seasonable is in our Market. We sell only freshf pure andclean foods. Prompt do'ivery. Lverycustomer satisfied. Astoria Fish, Game and Poultry Market. flALAR BROS., Proprietors, Twelfth Street. DANGEROUS ADULTERAN Not Only WhisKey, but Various Preparations Adulterated With Wood Alcohol. Er For Stylish Men Suits with the Snap, Style and Finish. Be correctly dressed. It costs no more it you see ANDREW LAKE 482 Commercial Street. Scow Bay Iron 8 Brass Words Mannfactnrers or Iron, Steel, Brass and Bronze Castings. General Foundryuien and Patternmakers. Absolutely firstcloss work. Prices lowest. Phone 2431 Comer Eighteenth and Franklin. MANY DANGERS DESCRIBED PIUEL 0 COOK TRANSFER CO. Telephone 221. Draying and Expressing Alt goods shipped toourcare will receive ipeotml attention. 709-715 Commercial Street. tanie and Fancy Groceries FLOUll, FEED, PROVISIONS, TOBACCO AND CIOARa Suppliee of ell kind, at lowest prioei (or Fishermen, Farmer, end Logger. Branch Uniontown, Phones, 711, Uniontowo, 713 A. V. ALLEN, Tenth and Commercial Strecte. ASTORIA. OREGON. ATrTTr-rrnmiTTTiiiiTiillllIIIlIIIIIITTIIIHIIII 0(BOO00OIS0000O00OiS00O00 O o H7 1 1 1 VISf IT fi-a o O VV M.& W ! W & c o o CIGARS, PIPES. TOBACCO. ETC iWILt MADISON O 030 r-OMMFBCIAL ST. i-i 114 ELEVENTH ST. e)oooooooo ooo ooooooooo 033)0 0OG0$0&OaOOAO0i000(00000 1 PLUMBING and TINNING 1 ? uhviuk . m I wi .1 r, BAAIIMA IMn DtDllDIMA 0 BATt AJB8, SINKS, CLOSETS AND OTHER FIXTURES IN O 0 STOCK. ONLY THI BE8 T. CALL AND GET OUR PRICES 1 I. A. Montgomery 425 ZL "T, V " - " ' ' 600000000000000000000 If MIDI PAH IRE INSDfiANCE COM Of New Zealand W. P. THOMAS, Mgr., San Francisco. UNLIMITED LIABILITY OF SHAREHOLDERS Has been Underwriting on the Pacifio Coast for twenty-five years ELMORE Q CO.. Sole Agents Astoria, - Oregon. HOTEL PORTLAND The Finest Hotel In the Northwest V, Hundred. Known te Have Been Killed or Rendered Blind in Last Few .Yeare by Ite Use in Flavor Inge, Wltoh Hazel, Etc New York. Nor. 28. Lone before the recent, death, caused by adulters ted whtakey In the Stryker'a Farm die trlct In tble city the medical profession realized the danger, that threatened the public from the substitution of wood alcohol for train alcohol. One grave peril lie. In the fact that wood alcohol la eometlmee ueed Instead of train alcohol In varlou household preparation. The ueeof wood alcohol In the menu facture and adulteration of potabl plrlta la ufflclently alarming, b;it this la by no means the extent of Ite use a an adulterantNot only have prepare tlona Intended for use In the arte, a varnishes, or for external use. a wltoh hasel. been made with wood al cohol as an Ingredient, but even medi cinal or flavoring agents, such aa es sence of Jamaica ginger, lemon, pep permint, Ac, Intended for Internal use have been found to contain It Eye specialist, of this count r and of Europe agree In ascribing many canes of total or partial blindness to wood alcohol, which had unknowingly been token In the form of liquor., medicinal remedies, flavoring essences or used externally In the for mof with hoxel and bay rum and a liniments and for alcohol rubs. Wood alcohol le known to the chem ist as carblnol and methyl, more popu lurly known under the name of pyro- llgneous spirit, pyroxyllc spirit, wood alcohol and wood naptha. It occurs a one of the Ingredients of crude wood vinegar, the fluid product of the destructive distillation of wood. Purified wood alcohol la a thin. colorless fluid, greatly resembling grain alcohol In taste and smell, but obtained from wood vinegar. Uupurl fled, it has a rank and offensive odor and flavor. It I. only within the past seven or eight year, that cheap, deodo rised wood alcohol ha. been placed on the market, and It la only during the same period that the alarming record of death and blindness resulting from It. uae ha. been made. Before that time the unpurlfled product possessed so offensive an odor and taste that even the moat Inveterate drunkard wa. unable to stomach It The purified wood alcohol I. known under various names, and owing to the fact of Its close similarity In taste and smell to train alcohol, and to It. comparative cheapness wood alcohol untaxed retails at 60 cent, a gallon, grain alcohol taxed retails at $2.0 It la very largely substituted for grain alcohol. Unhappy the deodorising process de stroys none of the poisonous properties of wood alcohol, and, while differing little In appearance, taste and smell from grain alcohol, It I. under certain condition, a deadly poison. Poisoning by wood alcohol manifests Itself In two forms that of acute poisoning and that of chronic poison Int. According to researches by physiologists, Jeffrey and Servereaux, Blrch-Hlrschfleld. Holden Hunt. Pohl and others the symptoms of the acute form are in general similar to those observed In cases of poisoning by grain alcohol excepting that the action of wood alcohol is produced more slowly and the duration of the Intoxi cation Is more prolonged. The coma cauaed by wood alcohol continue, for a very much longer time than does that caused by grain alcohol. The Investigations of Duller and Wood have demonstrated that, In many Instances no marked poisonous symp tom, are noticed until twenty-four hours, or longer, after the last number of doses, usually small drinks, had been taken. Indeed, It may be set down as a rule that except In persons exhibiting an idlosyncrocy against wood alcohol or unless a large dose of the poison be drunk within a few hours, not only may the severe abdominal symptoms and the collapse of the heart and ner vous system be postponed, but even the fatal termination has in some In stances been delayed for several days. Although physiological experiments would seem to show that the consump tion of wood alcohl In large quantities has a similar effect on animal life to that of grain alcohol when taken In ex cess, yet It I. gathered from the ob servation, by doctor, of those- suffer hol poisoning that wood alcohol Is un doubtedly," In every respect and how ever taken, far more dangerous to man than grain alcohol. . Chronic or sub-acute poisoning by wood alcohol, that I., the taking of .mall quantities at short Intervals, pro duce, a form of cumulative action, de pending probably on the retention within the body of wood alcohol or of some of its decomposition products. Pohl made the Important discovery that wood alcohol differ, markedly from grain alcohol In that It I. but par tially oxidized In the body and that Its admiration leads to the formation within the body of a markedly poison ous acid, formic acid, which I. thrown out of the system very slowly, a strik ing Illustration of the fact that within the body one poison may be converted Into another which I. far more power, fuL Dr. Frank Buller of Montreal and Or. Casey Wood of Chicago, both of whom are eye specialists, began an Invest! gallon of the subject In the early part of this year, and the result, are now being published In the Journal of the American Medical Association. The physician. In question have laid bare by their researcher, a startling state of affairs. , , It ha. been found that wood alcohol adulterated essences and witch hazel, a. well as other preparation, contain ing wood alcohol, have been directly responsible during the past seven or eight year, for about 175 cases of blindness and about 10 cases of death. Inasmuch as the Investigations have been necessarily Incomplete (Dr. Buller not having attempted to collect pub lished Instance, of death, and Dr. Wood having noted only cases unpub lished In medical Journals), It Is In a high degree likely that a more thorough and extended search would show that quite 200 persons have been killed and the same number blinded by preparations containing wood alco hol within a comparatively short period. I CELEBRATES 4iV KjSTOMACH -a Keen the stomach strong and healthy by using toe iiit ten aod yon have the secret of health and strength. Tbete 1 nothing else near so rood. It always cures. 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Price our goods and you will not buy elsewhere. We Sell on Easy Payments. Your Credit Is Good. H. H. Zapf & Co- Commercial St. The Leading House Furnishers. 1 PORTLAND. OREGON. ing from the acute form of wood alco