{"id":530,"date":"2009-08-06T06:10:59","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T13:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/?p=530"},"modified":"2009-08-06T06:38:18","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T13:38:18","slug":"took-rough-on-rats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/06\/took-rough-on-rats\/","title":{"rendered":"Took “Rough on Rats”"},"content":{"rendered":"

August 6, 1898, page 8
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"Rough On Rats" Victorian Product Label<\/p><\/div>\n

David Closson, 37, of Bridge street took a big dose of “rough on rats” yesterday forenoon with the evident intent of committing suicide. By the aid of emetics Mr. Closson’s life was saved. He had been making a round of the saloons in the morning and returning about 10 o’clock received a certain lecture from his wife, which made him feel uncomfortable. He retired to private life and brooded over the matter and finally came to the conclusion that a half-ounce of “rough on rats” would end his troubles. Going into the kitchen he mixed up a dose of this poison and told his wife that he was going to another world. Mrs. Closson, however, called in a neighbor and an immediate acting emetic was administered which rendered Mr. Closson exceedingly uncomfortable. The only change that was noticed after the emetic had finished its work was a great craving for water. Mr. Closson would not allow a doctor to be called, and was willing to admit he was foolish to do it and laid the blame to liquor. He has a hard-working wife and four small children.<\/p>\n

— Adapted from The Springfield Republican<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Image courtesy Joan Thewlis<\/a> via CC BY-NC-ND 2.0<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

August 6, 1898, page 8 David Closson, 37, of Bridge street took a big dose of “rough on rats” yesterday forenoon with the evident intent of committing suicide. By the aid of emetics Mr. Closson’s life was saved. He had been making a round of the saloons in the morning and returning about 10 o’clock […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[119,156,155],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":561,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions\/561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}