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...Francisco's Opera House one evening last week City Health Director Jacob Casson Geiger was summoned to a telephone, informed that one Albert Perry, 87, had just died of arsenic poisoning. That night Albert Perry's daughter Bessie, 53, also died. Next morning authorities found arsenic and sodium fluoride in the family's baking soda, traced the soda to a cut-rate department store run by one Joseph Rosenthal. Twenty-one other soda-users were discovered ill. Taking to the radio, Director Geiger warned San Franciscans to eat no more of the Rosenthal soda...
...Director Geiger thrilled the city by suggesting a mass murder plot. Likeliest suspect was a Chicago chef who in 1912, at a banquet for Cardinal Mundelein, put arsenic in the soup of 1,000 guests, killed several, sickened hundreds. Indicted for murder, the chef escaped, has since been accused of two other mass poisonings by arsenic. A New York chemist made San Francisco's mystery more exciting by reporting that he had found similar mixtures of arsenic and fluoride in baking soda two years ago. Director Geiger set out to investigate the cases of 30 San Franciscans...
Three students have been awarded shares in the Billings Prize of $150 offered each year by the Divinity School for improvement in pulpit delivery. They are Frederick W. Vaill 2Dv. of Waterbury, Connecticut, Charles Geiger 3Dv., of Hartford City, Indiana, and Curtis T. Spence grDr., of Norfolk, Virginia...
...GEIGER, M. D. Director of Public Health of the City and County of San Francisco...
...Geiger was neighborly again last week. With bitter cold weather sweeping the nation, he took occasion to say a word about fortifying drinks. He wrote to the San Francisco Examiner recommending that fine old U.S. fortifier, Tom & Jerry. The Examiner front-paged Dr. Geiger's recipe: "Whole egg and sugar, thoroughly beaten, about one tablespoon of sugar being used for each egg, a certain liquid added to the proper consistency and taste and then hot milk added to the mixture with nutmeg.*. . . The particular food product that should be stressed is hot milk in cold weather. ... It helps build...