Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
1992
Abstract
On the morning of 8 August 1907 a number of patrons were taking breakfast in the Capital Restaurant on Lome Street in Regina. The restaurant had not been in operation long but was apparently doing a good business, so it must have been somewhat disturbing to Mr. Steele, the owner and manager, when shortly after beginning their morning meal a number of his patrons became ill. The symptoms included quite severe abdominal pains so the decision was taken to send for a doctor who arrived to find nine people suffering from what was obviously something rather more serious than indigestion. In fact, he soon identified the symptoms as resulting from some sort of poisoning. He provided what treatment he could to those who were ill and sent the three worst cases to the local hospital. He then examined the food they had been eating and identified the oatmeal served that morning as the source of the poison. Under these circumstances it seemed wise to summon the police.
Comments
Published in Great Plains Quarterly 12:2 (Spring 1992). Copyright © 1992 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.