Word: arsenicated
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...Park Avenue, Manhattan. A woman came out, glanced about her, bent down, sprinkled a powder about each house corner, quietly disappeared indoors. The two men gathered up pinches of the powder from the sidewalk, took the pinches to a chemist to be analyzed. As they had suspected, it was arsenic...
Summoned to court, the poison-sprinkler, Mrs. Helen Corel, housekeeper for one John J. Smith, realtor, first stated that she had been after rats. But after being questioned she admitted that she had intended the arsenic for dogs. She said she did not wish to kill them; she was fond of dogs in the country or a large back yard. She had only meant to discourage them from loitering. Her basement windows had to be washed twice a day because of them. "Early in the morning and late at night and . . . during the day there were dogs in front...
...down that fashionable thoroughfare. I had a somewhat similar experience with dogs killing the shrubbery in front of my house, after the telegraph poles and trees had been removed from the street. And I succeeded in breaking up the frolic, although I didn't have to resort to arsenic in doing so. I had pictures of ferocious looking Tomcats done in yellow, and I placed these pictures in front of the shrubbery...
...somewhat similar experience with dogs killing the shrubbery in front of my house, after the telegraph poles and trees had been removed from the street. And I succeeded in breaking up the frolic, although I didn't have to resort to arsenic in doing so. I had pictures of ferocious looking Tomcats done in yellow, and I placed these pictures in front of the shrubbery...
...life between 70th and 85th Streets, not only on Park Avenue but on lowly Madison and lowlier Lexington, may be in danger at every sniff. To discourage dogs from smelling at doors and house corners, people have been sprinkling nose-outraging powders. Evidently some of this powder has contained arsenic. Several dogs have been sick. One dog died in convulsions...