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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1914
Page
7
Marcus A. Goodrich leads the Junior Scientific Society of San Antonio in exhaustive home experiments to prove that swatting fails against disease spreading flies. Committees study life cycles and breeding sites and plan a city campaign to remove fly-favorable conditions.
The notes describe larvae cannibalism after hatching, their failure to locate food when isolated, and how cleanliness reduces fly populations. Observations show larvae climb bottle sides while starving without nearby food, and adults were captured for study. Additional tests linked waste disposal and lime-sprinkling to limiting breeding.
The article blends science and maritime curiosities from the era. It describes experiments on flies including cannibalistic larvae behavior and astronomical scale egg production figures, then shifts to wireless voices heard at sea with operator anecdotes. It notes a Chinese ambassador stepping into Washington duties, framing a period setting.
To Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Holmes a girl at 4297 South Flores. To Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Roberts a girl born April 10 at 422 Esprasse Avenue. To Mr. and Mrs. I Wentworth a girl born April 8 at Belden Avenue. Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Hibbelston a girl born April 5 at 432 Soledad. To Mr. and Mrs. I. B. Drake a girl born April 9 at 824 South Flores Street.
Burial permits list Neil Semlinger age 27 who died April 10 at 320 North street and Ned Anderson age 61 who died April in Dallas Texas with a note of fitting repast. Nearby quotes from Baltimore American and Puck provide humorous cut lines about cigarette fiends and farm talk amid the fragmentary text.
An advertisement proclaims that readers deserve top quality and urges asking for it to secure the best possible products or services. A bold promotional stance stresses value and assurance to potential customers.
Irving Vermilya a 24 year old Marconi operator aboard the steamship Northland revealed a wireless telephone he invented claiming it can beam audible voice signals 25 miles and cost about 100 dollars Vermilya was found in the wireless house aboard the Northland near Murray street preparing to go home to Mount Vernon for dinner He said he had just telephoned his wife en route and that on prior trips he had sent captain messages to shore stations by wireless.
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