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Your child is defenseless unless Fly-Tox kills moths, flies, roaches, ants, mosquitoes, fleas, etc.

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Color print magazine advertisement for Fly-Tox. Depicts a young white child asleep holding a Black toy doll. This ad appeared in the Ladies' Home Journal, July 1925.

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“Your Child Is Defenseless Unless Fly-Tox Kills Moths, Flies, Roaches, Ants, Mosquitoes, Fleas, Etc.,” 1925. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/1831ck16b.

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