September 18, 1925 – Everyone is expected to kill a rat or two during “Rat Killing Week,” from September 18 to 24. Miss Helen A. Caldwell of the Bureau of Health, Department of Agriculture, famous throughout the country as a worker in the cause, is in the city for the purpose of assisting Petersburg citizens in exterminating these pests through the use of barium bicarbonate. It may sound like a joke to make war on rats, but these disease-breeding rodents should be exterminated as quickly as possible. “It is estimated that there are two rats or mice to each person in every community. These rode...
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