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Race, women and health · Claim record

That undertaking was not a retraction of the Biola article — the same item defended it 'as a vindication of our judgment' and printed eleven readers' testimonials for the device — and it was not kept: articles by Dr Charles T. Betts, who sold a book called Aluminum Poisoning, continued to appear in the magazine at least until 1935.

Claim ID claim-attitudes-ga-1925-policy-not-keptConcerns 13 April 1932Context
Context · 13 April 1932 Verified

That undertaking was not a retraction of the Biola article — the same item defended it 'as a vindication of our judgment' and printed eleven readers' testimonials for the device — and it was not kept: articles by Dr Charles T. Betts, who sold a book called Aluminum Poisoning, continued to appear in the magazine at least until 1935. The Golden Age, 2 December 1925The Golden Age, 21 August 1929The Golden Age, 13 April 1932The Golden Age, 10 April 1935

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The Golden Age, “The Mission of the Golden Age”

2 December 1925 · pp.139-141 · Woodworth, Hudgings & Martin (The Golden Age), Brooklyn, New York

“We make no claim to infallibility, but do try to be honest, fearless, sincere and helpful. If we make mistakes forgive us. We repent “seventy times seven”. ... Hereafter we shall publish no advertisements or articles other than the books of the International Bible Students Association, nor any writeups of articles which, however valuable they may be, might seem to be hints to purchase.”

An unsigned editorial reprinting the magazine's 1919 salutatory and adding an admission that some earlier announcements had been 'inadvisable or premature'. In the same item the magazine defends the April 1925 Biola article 'as a vindication of our judgment in publishing the original article' and prints eleven readers' testimonials for the device, omitting only their post offices.

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Confidence note. Read in the OCR text layer of the archive.org scan on 19 September 2026 on the leaves mapped to printed pages 139-141. The running head OCR reads 'DrcemErR 2, 1923' and 'DeEceMBED 2, 1923' — a misreading of 1925; the issue masthead on the leaf mapped to printed page 131 reads 'Wednesday, December 2, 1925'. Scanner hyphenation closed up; the ellipsis marks an omission of about 150 words.

Scan provenance. Internet Archive item 'magazines-the-golden-age-1925'; page numbers from the _djvu.xml leaf mapping joined to _page_numbers.json, cross-checked against the issue masthead 'Volume VII ... Wednesday, December 2, 1925 ... Number 168'.

Corroborated by. src-hlth-ga-1925-0422-electronic-diagnosis

Notes. This is the nearest thing to a retraction the magazine printed on the Biola, and it is not one: the device is defended in the same breath. The undertaking to stop printing what 'might seem to be hints to purchase' was not kept: articles by Dr Betts, who sold a book on aluminium poisoning, continued to appear at least until 1935.

Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-hlth-ga-1925-1202-mission-golden-age

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The Golden Age, “Do Aluminum Kitchen Utensils Have “A Clean Bill of Health”?”

21 August 1929 · pp.754-756 · Dr. C. T. Betts · Woodworth, Knorr & Martin (The Golden Age), Brooklyn, New York

“The American Medical Association at Chicago, Ill., was next mentioned. Then the United States Public Health Service was included in this investigation. The London Lancet also issued statements giving aluminum a clean bill of health.”

A rebuttal of an article by Albert A. Hopkins in Scientific American of March 1929 which had found aluminium cookware harmless. Betts lists the bodies Hopkins relied on — the manufacturer's works at New Kensington, the American Medical Association, the United States Public Health Service, The Lancet and the Mellon Institute — and argues that they should have been ignored in favour of his own book.

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Confidence note. Read in the OCR text layer of the archive.org scan on 19 September 2026 on the leaves mapped to printed pages 754-755; the issue's cover page (printed page 737) lists 'ALUMINUM POISONING' among the contents. Scanner hyphenation closed up.

Scan provenance. Internet Archive item 'golden-age-1929'; page numbers from the _djvu.xml leaf mapping joined to _page_numbers.json, cross-checked against the issue masthead 'Volume X ... August 21, 1929 ... Number 259'.

Notes. This article is direct evidence that the magazine knew the position of the AMA, the United States Public Health Service and The Lancet on aluminium cookware in 1929 and printed a rejection of it. It also reproduces a refusal letter from the editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association dated 19 June 1928.

Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-hlth-ga-1929-0821-betts-clean-bill

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The Golden Age, “Truth Sometimes Comes to the Surface Quickly”

13 April 1932 · p.442 · Dr. Chas. T. Betts · Golden Age Publishing Company, Brooklyn, New York

“Manufacturers of aluminum kitchenware continue to advertise that those opposed to the manufacture of aluminum cooking utensils are wrong, in spite of the fact that the reports show that such ware is used previous to 99 percent of all group poisoning cases.”

Betts recounts writing to a family in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, whose New Year's Day illness had been reported in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and printing their reply, which mentions soup carried in an aluminium pail.

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Confidence note. Read in the OCR text layer of the archive.org scan on 19 September 2026 on the leaf mapped to printed page 442, in the issue whose masthead reads 13 April 1932. Scanner hyphenation closed up.

Scan provenance. Internet Archive item '1930-1934TheGoldenAgeMagazine'; page number from the _djvu.xml leaf mapping joined to _page_numbers.json, cross-checked against the issue masthead 'Volume XIII ... Wednesday, April 13, 1932 ... Number 323'.

Notes. Establishes that Betts was still writing for the magazine on this subject in 1932, six and a half years after the magazine's December 1925 undertaking to restrict what it published.

Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-hlth-ga-1932-0413-betts-truth-surface

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The Golden Age, “Not Selling Cooking Utensils”

10 April 1935 · p.440 · Golden Age Publishing Company, Brooklyn, New York

“The Golden Age does not care what kind of cooking utensils you use. It isn't even concerned if you insist upon using aluminum of any kind. That is your privilege and responsibility. But it will not cease to warn those who are interested in their health that aluminum is injurious to the health in numerous and various ways. There is no question about this whatever.”

An unsigned item under the standing head 'Poisoning Department'. It was written in answer to a notice in Scientific American that the United States Federal Trade Commission had obtained a stipulation from a cookware seller to stop claiming that aluminium utensils cause cancer; the Golden Age reproduces that notice and rejects it.

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Confidence note. Read in the OCR text layer of the archive.org scan on 19 September 2026 on the leaf mapped to printed page 440. Scanner hyphenation closed up; no words changed.

Scan provenance. Internet Archive item '1935TheGoldenAgeMagazine', uploaded by [email protected] to the 'faithmagazines' collection and marked public domain. Page number from the item's _djvu.xml leaf mapping joined to _page_numbers.json, cross-checked against the issue masthead 'Volume XVI ... Wednesday, April 10, 1935 ... Number 406' and the running heads on neighbouring leaves.

Notes. The facing page (439) carries reader items headed 'How About It?' and 'Thumbs Down on Aluminum at Fresno'. The same 1935 volume carries further aluminium items on pages 341-343 (27 February 1935) and an article by Betts on diphtheria immunisation on pages 793-795 (11 September 1935).

Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-hlth-ga-1935-0410-not-selling-utensils

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