TIME
Among unique new devices is the mosquito killer invented by one L. A. Li Castre, Cleveland technician, and rigged up last week at Whitestone, mosquito-infested section of New York City. The bluish light of a mercury arc attracts the insects; a high frequency current flowing along the arc tube kills them.
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