. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . BOSTON. 99 TH P, law now upon the statute books of Massachu-setts prohibiting the adulteration of food andmedicine has jiroved in its practical working a greatboon. The earliest advocate of this legislation wasCharles Eckley Moody, who in the conduct of hiswholesale grocery business, had found daily evidence ofthe growing danger from adulterated and impure food,and who, sacrificing the temporary gain which mighthave come from silence, began single-handed th
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . BOSTON. 99 TH P, law now upon the statute books of Massachu-setts prohibiting the adulteration of food andmedicine has jiroved in its practical working a greatboon. The earliest advocate of this legislation wasCharles Eckley Moody, who in the conduct of hiswholesale grocery business, had found daily evidence ofthe growing danger from adulterated and impure food,and who, sacrificing the temporary gain which mighthave come from silence, began single-handed the agita-tion which resultedin success. Othershad spoken, perhaps,before him, of theincreasing practiceof adulteration, butMr. Moody not onlytalked up the matteramong the mer-chants, but carriedhis ideas to BeaconHill, urged themupon the law-makers,framed a bill of hisown, and finally se-cured the enactmentof the law,—boththe idea and the lan-guage of which arepractically his. Thelife of Charles Eck-ley Moody, could itbe told in all itsdetails here, wouldbe good read-ing for the boys ofthe present in Bath, Me.,the son of J
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