Word: merkle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bronx's New York Zoological Park appeared Rupert Merkl, 52, Bavarian-born, Ossining, N. Y. farmer, claiming he had invented a snake trap. Said Curator of Reptiles Dr. Raymond Lee Ditmars: "Impossible. I have never seen an effective snake trap and I know of no poison that will lure...
...Look," said Inventor Merkl. He produced a yard-long wire cage with open ends and a live mouse in a smaller cage inside. Dr. Ditmars produced a rattlesnake...
...Depression," explained Inventor Merkl. "Nothing to do. I swear I make a trap to catch anything. First I figure and figure. Then I improve and improve. All 100% humane traps. No one gets hurt. The animals, they like it. They sit there inside, nice and quiet, and look out. Only the coon, he woof at you when you come. They go in my traps. I guarantee...
...reporters Merkl explained that he had been trained in Germany as a copper wire net maker, started making traps to catch rats and weasels that were killing his Ossining hens. The American Humane Association gave him a prize for the most humane animal trap and Merkl went into business in his shed making traps by hand, far more slowly than his two sons could sell them. "I have to punch and rivet by hand. If only I had a spot welder. I make about 150 small traps a week. I can get orders...
...party set out from Srinagar on May 2. Early in July they had pitched a camp at 23,000 ft., in sight of the heavily buttressed summit. Here screaming gales caught Merkl and two others. They and their porters started down. The Germans stopped at Camp No. 7. Nine porters reached Camp No. 5. Two of these died and three others were abandoned before the four survivors, frost-bitten and exhausted, reached Camp No. 4. From that point a rescue party of three started up the Mountain of Horror to look for Merkl and his two comrades, hardly hoping...