day, 
GREAT MECHANICS FAIR 
All New England now quite gen- 
- erally knows that there is to be an 
~ “Old Time Mechanics Fair’’ at the 
- Mechanics Building on Huntington 
avenue, Boston, during the entire 
month of October beginning Mon- 
day, Oct. 3, and ending Saturday 
night, Oct. 29, and continuing every 
except Sundays, from 10 
o’clock in the morning until 10 
o’elock at night. All of the attrac- 
tions in this immense building will 
be free to all who pass the turnstiles 
and they will be of a really extraor- 
dinary character. 
In the first place, there will be 
more than 200 practical working ex- 
hibits of processes of manufacturing 
many kinds of useful and ornament- 
al articles, shoes and other articles 
of wear, cut glass and other things 
for the household; appliances of 
utility for the home and business 
office and the closet of the student; 
great automobile exhibit with the 
first showing of 1911 models; and 
about everything of which one can 
conceive as appropriate to a genuine 
mechanics fair, only more of them 
and of higher quality than ever be- 
fore shown in Boston. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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CHILDREN ARE THE VICTIMS. 
Campaign on to Teach Protection 
Against Dangers of Muscat Vul- 
garis. 
There is no reason why the general 
public should not know as much of 
the general principle of the threat to 
human health and human life econ- 
tained in that sentence as those men 
who, with the fortuitous instinct that 
impels them to devote their lives to 
study, research and experiment, have 
come to know the danger there lies 
in the existence of the ordinary, com- 
mon, every-summer-day house fly. 
‘‘Museat vulgaris,’’ the scientists 
call it, and by that name it may be- 
looked upon with a little more re- 
spect than by its ordinary one. But 
no matter its name, the house fly 
should be fought with intelligence 
and persistency until this deadliest 
of insects shall have been eliminated 
from the natural economy. 
Fly Carries White Plague. 
Tuberculosis of the lungs is trans- 
mitted in an enormous percentage by 
the house fly. Knowledge of this 
fact sometimes causes those who 
made the subject a study to question 
the wisdom of the rigid rules now ob- 
taining almost throughout civiliza- 
tion against expectoration in public, 
and especially upon sidewalks. 
The bacilli of consumption, in 
themselves, will not live in a dry 
state and in the sunlight for more 
than one and one-half hours. So long, 
however, as they are kept damp, by 
the moisture of the sputum or that of 
the damp street or moisture from any 
source they can withstand the sun- 
light for a much longer time and re- 
tain all their virulence and destruc- 
tiveness. Of course, while they are 
damp they are less liable to be blown 
around, but if the sputum be dried 
by the sun and they are not blown 
into other moisture or out of the 
range of the rays of the sun, they are 
soon dead. 
It is while they are in moisture 
that they are taken up by the fly, 
eaten, but never digested or even in- 
jured by the passage through the 
body of the fly. Numberless experi- 
ments by such distinguished ento- 
mologists as Dr. Henry Skinner of 
the Philadelphia Academy of Natur- 
al Scientist; Dr. D. S. Jackson of 
New York, and Dr. Howard of the 
United States Bureau of Agriculture, 
have proved this fact indubttably. 
Fights Fly Strenuousiy. 
Without going ints ihe history of 
The store on two streets 
Auto and earriage en- 
trance Washington St. 
The New Autumn Suits 
S usual the Webber Store is first to display the 
new styles for Fall and Winter and we invite you 
to come and view the New Suits, Coats and Waists. It 
is as though we were lifting the veil which has kept 
hidden the coming Fall and Winter style changes. Each 
flay adds new interest and extended vanity. 
thing not seen today will be here tomorrow. 
Burprises are always in store for those who visit 
NORTH SHORE’S LEADING STYLE SHOP 
Some- & 
Pleasant eS 
