Edison's Dinner.
The ' Petit Journal ' is answerable for the following '."'—The 'cietebmfed electrician, Edison; recently' gajeia grand banquet at his ; sumptuous residence in honour of the; Franklyn Club. In the dining room was a wax statute of the illustrious *> inventor of the lightning conductor, which moved its eyes and arms and opened its .mouth- to speak. Prom time to time the. statue, by meanjs of its continued use is likely to be 'very prejudioal to the consumer. In' a baking powder prosecution not long ago it was deposed that' ihe ;v use of the artiole had afflicted quite a large proportion of the population with constipation and indigestion ''dwing to the alum with which it \ya^. adulterated. There is no question- that the use of such misleading names as egg powder for a substance possess* ing not the remotest affinity id egg's, ought to be strictly prohibited and severely punished. In foe; pjesehij case the purchaser was not only, defrauded by not getting a nutritive article of diet, such as , its: name A might reasonably lead him to expect but he ran an excellent chance of being half poisoned as well,— Ex change. / , '
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Manawatu Herald, 18 May 1893, Page 2
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193Edison's Dinner. Manawatu Herald, 18 May 1893, Page 2
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