Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1915 — Salts Down Frog Chorus. [ARTICLE]

Salts Down Frog Chorus.

Cudahy, Cat, boasts of a magician who has power over frogs. This marvel, a woman, lives where the ground is low and the water gathers when it rains And in the rain the frogs come home to roost and to croak. Mrs. M. H. Murphy, who lives on Mary street, stood the serenade the first night very well. But the second night her nerves got ragged around the edges and on the third night she racked her brains for a way to silence frogs. Her subconscious mind came to the rescue and suggested a remedy she first heard in childhood. This was to feed the melodious frogs with salt Five pounds of salt covered Frogtown next morning and the singers moved out