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Modern Electricity Wonders and a Rat Trap Tale
The piece extols electricity as a transformative force with uses from electric baths to illuminated canes. It then recounts an Omaha inventor’s electric rat trap that kills rats via a contact with a zinc floor, likening it to Kemmler’s execution, and imagines broader uses from cattle slaughter to electric canes and fire starters.
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New York
Madison Avenue
China
New York Journal
Omaha
Cata
Delmonico's
Flis Toos
Kemmler
Fifth Avenue
Dick Turpins
Cupid