The Daily Dispatch: May 7, 1864., [Electronic resource]

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Poisonous flour.

--A few days since the family of Mrs. Miller, on the corner of 13th and Franklin streets, were poisoned from eating bread made from flour which she had bought the day before. In a short while after getting up from the table they experienced severe nausea at the stomach and dizziness about the head and eyes, plainly indicating that the stuff which had been palmed off upon them as a good article of flour possessed properties which rendered it dangerous to human life to partake of. On yesterday Mrs. M's family, including the negroes on the place, were still suffering from its effects, though it is not believed that any of them are dangerously ill.

At the present price of flour, surely every merchant ought to afford to sell none but a good article; but instead of that you will find very few of them are willing to name the quality of that which they sell and in a majority of cases when it is taken home and cooked it turns out to be worse than "seconds," possessing neither color, taste, nor body to make it palatable or healthy. The case in point will probably undergo an investigation.