POISONED BAKING SODA
PLOT SUSPECTED
DEATHS IN SAN FRANCISCO
SAN FRANCISCO, November 20.
Facing the grave possibility of a widespread poison plot designed to take the lives of many citizens, city authorities today began an investigation to determine how baking soda sold over the bargain counter of a large local department store had come to kill at least three persons and made hundreds of others ill. The deaths of 30 others may yet be traced to the same source.
First theories advanced by investigators were that the soda had been packed in barrels containing deadly insecticides, but a later study showed that more than one poison was present in the contaminated soda, and that these poisons were too thoroughly mixed in to be accidental.
Inquiry has also begun into the sudden deaths of 30 persons from stomachal disturbances since October 23, when this bulk soda was first put on sale, since in three known cases of death soda was always taken for indigestion.
Two distributors of soda have been arrested and efforts have been made to warn all purchasers of the danger by means of wide broadcasts over the radio.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 125, 22 November 1935, Page 11
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190POISONED BAKING SODA Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 125, 22 November 1935, Page 11
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