Word: oleo
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...Mege-Mourees, a French scientist, invented margarine as a substitute for butter, by churning beef fat with milk. The product was called oleomargarine. In 1906, vegetable oils were first substituted for the oleo oils, to lower the price and improve the product. Up till this time, margarine was considered only a nasty substitute for butter; good grocers would not sell it, and some sellers were arrested for handling it. Its only lure lay in its cheapness...
Question: "Resolved, That each State has the right to prohibit the sale of oleo-margarine...
Question: "Resolved, That each State has the right to prohibit the sale of oleo - margarine...
...Stevens Institute, Prof. Chandler of Columbia College, Prof. Caldwell of Cornell Univ., Prof. Johnson of Yale, and others, in Congressional Record, vol, 17, part 8, appendix p. 231 et seq, article on "Oleo vs. Hash Butter" by Prof. Babcock in Boston Post; Apr. 2, 1888; also "In Defence of Oleo," Boston Post, Apr. 25, 1888; Report of Commissioner of Int. Revenue, 1887, pp. cxxxvii...
...govenment supervision: U. S. Finance rept. 1887, p. 365; speech of Mr. Milliken, Cong. Rec., vol. 17, pt. 5, p. 4977. (2) State laws cannot protect the community from the high prices fradulently asked for a cheap article: Treasury Rept., p. 379; Boston Herald, April 27, 1888, "How the 'Oleo' law is evaded;" Mr. Grout, Cong...