Word: traps
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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...
...snake took one look at the mouse, slithered in one end of the cage, tripped a centre pan which crashed down heavy mesh doors at both ends, trapping the snake. Dr. Ditmars released the snake. The snake did it again. Said Dr. Ditmars: "Astonishing. I have discovered the snake trap. Make me up a batch for my trip to Trinidad late this summer...
...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...
...need a mouse for the snake trap, I have a mouse trap, to catch the mouse to catch the snake with. I catch a copperhead snake first time I try. Always tell a copperhead because he smells like cucumbers. Now I make a trap for alligators. But not for elephant. He walks away...
...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...