Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 177, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1916 — St. Louis Catches Flies in Three-Story Traps [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

St. Louis Catches Flies in Three-Story Traps

ST. LOUIS. —“Catcn the Fly,” is the slogan of St. Louis. The pesky things that carry millions of germs at the end of their fine, fuzzylike toes, or whatever you call ’em, are banned by the St. Louis authorities, and a price has been

placed on the heads of the flies just as a price is placed on the heads of stray dogs. - While practically every city, town and hamlet boasts of its dog pound. St. Louis has taken the initiative and has established a fly pound. The fly traps that are located in various parts of the city are the centers of attraction to visitors in the Mound city, and many of them, say that when they get back home they are going to follow the example set by St.

Louis and set fly traps in their own home towns. The trap is a huge imitation of the ordinary fly traps one often sees in butcher shops. At the bottom there is a conical opening, and under this opening one places a piece of suet or a piece of meat The flies swarm by the thousands around the bait, an<Tfly up through the opening in the cone into the trap, from which there is no escape. The St. Louis traps ara tbree-siory affairs with plenty of light and air for the flies that like the free apartments into widen they ve Invited. '