Woman Fights Bed Bugs
Chenango Union, April 18, 1889
Cortland: Last Friday morning, Mrs. Loring Stone, who lives in John C. McKee's tenant house on Owego street, went hunting for bed bugs. She thought she had corralled a bevy of these man-eaters in a bed room in the southeast corner of the lower floor, and she gave them a dose of sulphur. Not long afterwards she discovered that the room was on fire. Box 124, corner of Union and Owego streets, was pulled and the department was soon on the scene. The building was soon flooded with water and the fire extinguished. Mr. Stone's goods were all more or less injured by water. The loss on the building will probably amount to $300, which is fully covered by insurance. It is believed that there are no bed bugs in the building. --Democrat.
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