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A Cockroach is impaled on a pin after 6-year-old Donald Moore caght it in the rundown flat his welfar mother rents in Toronto's most-rundown rooming h(...)
A Cockroach is impaled on a pin after 6-year-old Donald Moore caght it in the rundown flat his welfar mother rents in Toronto's most-rundown rooming h(...)

A Cockroach is impaled on a pin after 6-year-old Donald Moore caght it in the rundown flat his welfar mother rents in Toronto's most-rundown rooming h(...)

Date3/12/1971
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Original Toronto Star caption: A Cockroach is impaled on a pin after 6-year-old Donald Moore caght it in the rundown flat his welfar mother rents in Toronto's most-rundown rooming house district. Lois Moore says the cockroaches weren't so bad ysterday-the fumigators had been in-but they were there for the boys to catch and put in jars.
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