Sunday, February 26, 2017

Moore, Mrs. - 1891

The board of trustees should pass an ordinance regulating the promiscuous circulation of handbills and samples on the streets.  Last week a little child of Mrs. Moore, who lives on D street, between Seventh and Eighth, secured a sample bottle of medicine which had been thrown there, containing carbolic acid and other poisons, drinking the entire contents.

A doctor was summoned and labored hard with the child before she was out of danger.  There is no reason why a law should not be passed preventing the wholesale scattering of poison in places where little children will find it.  It is wicked and outrageous.

As to the handbills they are flung on the sidewalks and streets flying hither and thither, scaring horses, causing runaways and doing no good.  It is not permitted in any other town in the state and there is no reason why San Bernardino should be so prominently lack in such matters.

~ The Kaleidoscope, San Bernadino, California, Saturday, July 4th, 1891, Page 4, Columns 1 & 2

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