Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1914 — PULEX CHEOPSIS BAD ASSOCIATES [ARTICLE]

PULEX CHEOPSIS BAD ASSOCIATES

Don't Let One of These Come in Contact With Bubonic Plague and Then Bite You. I Search your homes carefully an|L if you find any pulex cheopsis get busy with an exterminator. An expert hhs been working. In Indianapolis to ascertain if the rats and fleas there are the kind that would carry bubonic plague if it broke out in that City and he has decided that the special species of fleas that are operating in Indianapolis are the pulex cheopsis, the very kind that carry the bubonic plague. If one of these should roost over night on a person with the bubonic plague and then hop over to your house and spend a night or two it is dollars to doughnuts that you will be a victim of the horrible disease. The pulex cheopsis are carried by the tats. The rodents come across from the foreign countries and are scattered by means of baggage to all parts of the United States. The experts ih Indianapolis found 90 rats infected with 200 fleas. They will carry their investigations to other cities, especially along the Ohio river. In the meantime if you happen to meet a pulex cheopsis rechair or a slipper and give him a fair sample of the European war. If your poodle dog is siezed with an itching fit and seems to have, any old variety of fleas, just take it for granted that pulex ch&psis has camped on his anatomy and insist that he sleep in the woodshed instead of beneath your bed. While it is not probable that this disease is to break out n Rensselaer it is just as easy to take the precautions suggested and hot to have it written on your tombstone: “Met death from the bite on the ankle of a pulex cheopsis.” I ■' ’ m "" ✓