Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1912 — Motor Cars As Fly Swatters. [ARTICLE]

Motor Cars As Fly Swatters.

Probably no street odor is more aggravating to the average person than the gaseous, vapor from the engine ot a motor car. Yet that pervasive odor has a beneficent use of its own —or at least scientists wj it has. One of the learned gentlemen, Dr. Edward Halford Ross of London, declares that motpr vehicles are the most effective, agencies for the extermination of files. The vapors from these vehicles, he points out, are Bure death to insects coming Into contact with them, and In support of that view he holds that files have disappeared almost entirely from those districts in London, in Which motor cars are in general use. The same condition, he believes, will be found to prevail in other great cities. One thing is conceded, and that is that stables once used for horses, but since converted Into garages, are absolutely free from flies.