Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1913 — Danger in Crabs. [ARTICLE]

Danger in Crabs.

Crabs, no matter how fresh they be make some fellows sick nearly even time they eat them. Still they take a chance on it every once in so often just the same. Crabs must be very fine eating and have a lovely taste as they are being munched and put into the paunches of the crab-eaters. Crabs will eat a dead horse, or rats, pigs, cats or dogs decaying in the ocean. Perhaps if the crabs were penned up and fed on the choicest of foods for some days, so as to get a few of the dirty germs out of them, as well as rid them of the filth they eat, then in a somewhat cleaner condition they might not, after being eaten, turn the Insides wrong side out and inside outward — both ways at the same time. Some foolish fellows feel highly insulted when told that they ; take a chance every time they eat crabs. Eat ’em and don’t kick at the doctor bill.—Exchange. i