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Safeguard Your Home Against Disease and Vermin FUMIGATE!! It can be done without odor or injury to fabrics and furnishings rAlSEASE uerms and vermin breed in the spring. The time to destroy them completely is * ''NOW--before the eggs have had time to develop. The well known fact that household insects carry deadly diseases was recently emphasized by Dr. G. A. Friedman, Professor of Medicine of the N. Y. Polyclinic Medical School, who advances the theory that they have been largely responsible in the spread of influenza. (Sec the N. Y. Medical Record, January 4,1919.) Aside from spreading diseases, consider the enor- You need not alter in any way your daily routine. mous property damage and destruction caused by many insects?for example, the MOTH. No wearing apparel, choice drapery or fine covering is safe from the depredations of the hungry moth, that lays its eggs in the spring and leaves its young to feed on your valuables. You may think that ordinary cleaning methods rid your home of insects, bugs, moths, etc., but in reality nothing except the most export scientific system o? extermination can eliminate the eggs, which are the source of all the trouble. We do not back up with a wagon or automobile and let your neighbor know your house is being fumigated. Our experienced?BONDED?corps of Exterminating Engineers bring nothing but small, inconspicuous equipment, with which their work is done silently and orderly. Vacated houses and unoccupied summer homes that were left in perfect cleanliness seem to be the very places where germs and insects thrive most readily. Such should be fumigated at least once every year to keep them clean, wholesome and invit? ing?free from all germs, insects and filth-breeding vermin. FUMIGATE! Our guaranteed method is scientific?a chemical vapor process that penetrates into every crevice and unseen place where vermin propagate. It is non odorous and absolutely harmless to even the most delicate fabrics and furnishings. The work is done in from two to four hours, with not the slightest inconvenience to you. Nothing need be removed from the premises. Read these unusual examples of the efficient results of our methods One of the largest hotels in North Carolina was so overrun with ants that the owners had despaired of ever being rid of them when our services were enlisted. With a single treatment we Completely destroyed all traces of these objectionable creatures, without d.sturbing the routine of work or annoying a single guest. A large Steamship Company, after having us fumigate one of their great ships, was so completely satisfied with the results that it gave us a contract for its entire work. The cost is nominal?it is based on the amount of work. And we absolutely guarantee complete ex? termination. We are equipped to fumigate at a moment's notice homes, estates, factories, res? taurants, hotels, lofts, libraries, steamships, hospitals, private or public institutions, government buildings, cantonments, etc. At Raman Barracks. Metuchen. N. J . we fumigated, on less than twenty-four hours' notice, twenty-two Government Build? ings, comprising 700.000 cubic feet Sixteen doors and innumer? able windows in each building had to be hermetically -.sealed We started work in the morning, and before the occupants re? turned at night germs and insects were entirely exterminated? this without removing any of the contents of the buildings. Every building was clean, fresh and inviting?not a single germ or insect remained. There are hundreds of testimonials and letters of appreciation in our files which we will gladly show you. Now is the time to FUMIGATE!! Be sure that when summer comes your home is safe from the unseen menace of disease germs and vermin. Write, phone or call. We will send a representative to give you full information. This incurs no obligation. Guarantee Exterminating Company Scientific Exterminators of All Vermin 500 Fifth Avenue, Cor 42nd Street New York City i 2716 ) 2717 Telephones-. 2718 f 4133 Vanderbilt r We Guarantee to Exterminate ANTS ROACHES BED BUGS MOTHS FLEAS RATS MICE We also Disinfect