{"id":1241,"date":"2011-09-29T05:56:59","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T05:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2011-09-29T05:56:59","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T05:56:59","slug":"flies-bring-50-cents-a-pint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/?p=1241","title":{"rendered":"Flies Bring 50 Cents A Pint."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"39c6668e916543b4a7bf784d6ba1971d\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-2182508389013555\";\r\n\/* Med-Banner *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"5485677463\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Lake Forest Fixes Rate Five Times Higher as That Set by St. Louis.<\/p>\n<p>Town Gives This Reason For Generous Inducement to Successful Swatters.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Flies were quoted Friday on the Lake Forest board at 50 cents a pint.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 It is merely a question of supply and demand with Lake Forest. That city claims the distinction of possessing the smallest number of flies to the square yard of territory of any city in Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 When Mrs. Arthur T. Aldis, president of the Lake Forest Improvement League, started to start a fly-swatting contest she suddenly discovered that few flies possessed sufficient aristocratic tastes to go live in Lake Forest.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;St. Louis quoted flies at 10 cents a pint, but the supply is larger there,&#8221; said Mrs. Aldis last night. &#8220;Here in Lake Forest we have few flies and to give impetus to the movement, we will pay 50 Cents a pint at city hall. In addition the contestants who bring in the largest number of flies will receive $5 in gold.<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lake Forest Fixes Rate Five Times Higher as That Set by St. Louis. Town Gives This Reason For Generous Inducement to Successful Swatters. \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Flies were quoted Friday on the Lake Forest board at 50 cents a pint. \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 It is merely a question of supply and demand with Lake Forest. That city claims the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[189],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}