{"id":1420,"date":"2013-02-07T16:01:16","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T21:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/?p=1420"},"modified":"2013-01-31T18:32:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T23:32:00","slug":"11-dispatches-from-the-rare-book-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/11-dispatches-from-the-rare-book-room\/","title":{"rendered":"DRBR 11: In which Public Health Announcements are made"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we have some public health notices from 1923 (DR5-L73 and 74).<\/p>\n

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“Either you’ve washed your hands and nails with soap and water, or you mustn’t eat or touch your eyes. Contagious diseases are in dirt!”<\/p><\/div>\n

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Thanks to Alex Casser for translations from Yiddish.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

‘Dam, tsfardeya, kinim’–the third plague is the worst! Check yourself for lice! Typhus comes from lice!”<\/p>\n

Also observe the interesting font, how the lamed doesn’t rise above the line of type, nor the kuf descend below it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today we have some public health notices from 1923 (DR5-L73 and 74). “Either you’ve washed your hands and nails with soap and water, or you mustn’t eat or touch your eyes. Contagious diseases are in dirt!” ‘Dam, tsfardeya, kinim’–the third plague is the worst! Check yourself for lice! Typhus comes from lice!” Also observe the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calligraphy","category-dispatches-from-the-rare-book-room"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1420"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1450,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions\/1450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}