The Cockroach Union and Waterbugs Protective Association

 

 

 

Hi Guys!

I'm back with some more anthro bug weirdness courtesy of Peterman's Roach Food!  This stuff was designed to kill cockroaches and other insect vermin way back in the early 1900s!  It came in a bright red tin covered with microscopic pictures that tell a most distressing story!  Seems that the bugs are up in arms because something is killing them off!  They have formed a "protective association" and are marching in protest kind of like Coxey's Army!  

 

 

 

 

But it's no good!  All that marching has worked up the bugs' appetites!  So they check in to chow down on some of that delicious "roach food."  Too bad it's poison!  One by one, the roaches eat the tainted feast and they croak, right there on the package!  

 

Man, that's tough!  But I guess if you've got cockroaches marching around in your kitchen, this is how you deal with them!  

One of the interesting things about this old tin is that the directions are printed in both English and Italian.  Back in the early twentieth century, there were millions of immigrants coming to the U.S. from all over the world!  Lots of them, maybe most of them, were from Italy, so the makers of Peterman's Roach Food made sure that they could read the instructions in their own language.  But what about the Russians and the Poles, the Hungarians, the Dutch, the Germans, the Chinese, and everybody else?  Well, there wasn't enough room on the box for all those languages, so the pictures make it clear!  This stuff kills bugs and probably people, too, so don't be sprinkling it on your kluski or your sauerkraut!  

OK guys, that's all for now; see you next time!

 

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