100 Years Ago: Ice Cream Meeting Turns Serious With Talks of Tuberculosis in Cow's Milk

100 Years Ago: Ice Cream Meeting Turns Serious With Talks of Tuberculosis in Cow's Milk

A convention of the members from the local district of the Illinois Ice Cream Manufacturers’ Association met at 1:30 p.m. on January 21, 1926, in the Rose Room of the Mineral Springs Hotel. The meeting concluded with a banquet, also at the Mineral Springs Hotel. Representatives from surrounding towns, among them Litchfield and Jerseyville, “and a number of ice cream men from St. Louis.”One of the main purposes of the meeting was to hold a recept…