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Show OFFICIAL FLY CATCHER i;;.:vl ? f'-'&i 4 1? H r Zip Jfe"2T"? "Catch the fly" is the slogan of St. Louis. The pesky things thut carry millions of germs at the end of their fine fuzzylike tos. or whatever you cull '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 established a fly pound. The fly trays that are located in various parts of the city proved the center of attraction attrac-tion to the Democratic delegates who were In the Mound City to attend the national Democratic convention, nnd it Is dollars to doughnuts, that when they g-t back home they are going to follow the example set by SL 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 and fly up through . the opening in the cone, into the trap from which there is no escape. The St. Louis traps are three-story affairs with plenty of light and air for the (lies that like the free apartments Into which they are invited. |