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Signs Publishing Co. · Melbourne, Victoria · May 31, 1920

FromAustraliasian Signs of the Times, Vol. 35, No. 22.

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Spiders Disrupt Telegraph Lines

SPIDERS are responsible for quite a number of troubles on the telegraph lines in Argentine Republic and Brazil. The ground spider spins a heavy web which the wind wraps around the wires in great masses, and when these become damp, short circuits are formed. Trouble men are obliged to follow the wires across the country and remove the webs. Of course, the spiders that grow in South America are not the small and harmless insects to which we are accustomed.