"FLY-TOX kills Flies, Mosquitoes" - Fly-tox print ad - 1930s

Strange old day, they have to use the pump, no spray can.

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I’m afraid to ask what’s in it. Especially with that inset photo where she’s using a mouth dispenser.
- Just good old fashioned DDT apparently...
Later versions used freon as a propellant.
- So, you have to buy a pump yourself ? or just open the can, let it in the room and fly tox just work out of the can ?
  
  I don't know. I have a vague recollection of there being some kind of trigger and nozzle attachment for things like this.
Their ads were great
- “Safe.”

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