Capito Luchs (Lynx) Mousetrap (1920)
It is hard for many of us to grasp how significant a problem rodents were to our ancestors. While mice still pose health risks to modern populations, the average person in the 19th and early 20th centuries were keenly battling these vermin. This is evidenced by the relatively large number of mousetrap advertisements found in publications of the day. And who hasn’t heard the phrase, “Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a…
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