{"id":1091,"date":"2013-12-18T19:24:46","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T01:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/?p=1091"},"modified":"2019-01-07T09:49:07","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T15:49:07","slug":"1867-08-10-how-to-get-rid-of-house-flies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/1867-08-10-how-to-get-rid-of-house-flies\/","title":{"rendered":"1867-08-10: How to Get Rid of House Flies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flies during this hot summer weather, are a great annoyance to housekeepers and others. For their benefit we print the following, going the rounds of our exchanges. It is a simple and cheap remedy and contains nothing poisonous, as many of the articles recommended for the destruction of the troublesome insects do. House flies may be effectually destroyed by taking a half a spoonful of black pepper in powder, a tablespoon of brown sugar, and one teaspoonful of cream. Mix them together and place the mixture in a room where the flies are troublesome and they will soon disappear.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85033306\/1867-08-10\/ed-1\/seq-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 10 Aug. 1867, Page 1<\/a>. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flies during this hot summer weather, are a great annoyance to housekeepers and others. For their benefit we print the following, going the rounds of our exchanges. It is a simple and cheap remedy and contains nothing poisonous, as many of the articles recommended for the destruction of the troublesome insects do. House flies may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[235,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-235","category-newsextract"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1092,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions\/1092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}