Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 150, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1917 — Beware of Peddlers. [ARTICLE]

Beware of Peddlers.

The county council of defense warns the public not to purchase medicine, plasters, powders, cosmetics and other preparations from strangers who make a house to house canvass. Don’t buy these articles of strangers, but let your local dealers supply you. This advice is given because our enemy is attempting to introduce contageous diseases into this country, by inoculating* articles such as mentioned above. Leprosy, for instance, can be transmitted this way. Be on the safe side. Buy from people you know.