{"id":1704,"date":"2012-09-21T21:42:06","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T21:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/?p=1704"},"modified":"2012-09-21T21:42:06","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T21:42:06","slug":"55-quintillons-of-flies-killed-here-in-2-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/?p=1704","title":{"rendered":"55 Quintillons of Flies Killed Here in 2 weeks."},"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>Don&#8217;t Wear Out Your Pencils, Folks-Here&#8217;s The Figure: 55,000,000,000,000,000.<\/p>\n<p>Cost Was Only $110.00.<\/p>\n<p>Residents of the city are asked to comply with the request of the lieutenants in the anti-fly and mosquito campaign and place on display on their premises the &#8220;Good Neighbor&#8221; cards which are being distributed.<br \/>\n     During the two weeks that the school children received a bounty of 10 cents per hundred for every fly they swatted, the children killed 11,000 flies, according to the reports from the various schools.<br \/>\n     The bounty upon these flies amounted to $110, and the Kiwanis clubs provided the funds for the payment of the bounties.<br \/>\n     Inasmuch as each one of these 10,000 flies would produce 5,000,000,000,000 progeny in a season, it is figured the children have caused the death of 55,000,000,000,000,000 flies.<br \/>\n     The children have become so enthusiastic in their swat campaign they are keeping it up despite the fact that bounties are no longer paid. The other day a youngster slipped up to a traveling man in a local store and before the man realized what it was all about the lad had swatted a fly on the salesman&#8217;s coat.<br \/>\n     Men from the department of health under direction of Commissioner McDermott, are cutting cattails on the flats northeast of Waukegan, and the stagnant pools are being treated with oil.<br \/>\n     The Glen Flora Country club has taken over the work of eradicating mosquitoes on their property by the use of oil.<\/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>Don&#8217;t Wear Out Your Pencils, Folks-Here&#8217;s The Figure: 55,000,000,000,000,000. Cost Was Only $110.00. Residents of the city are asked to comply with the request of the lieutenants in the anti-fly and mosquito campaign and place on display on their premises the &#8220;Good Neighbor&#8221; cards which are being distributed. During the two weeks that the school [&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":[190],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704"}],"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=1704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}