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Sticks & Stones ... In Ottawa, Ill., a judge enjoined Henry Factly Jr. from trying to evict his aged mother by 1 ) putting an electric fence across the drive to shock her, 2) hiding iron pipes in the grass to trip-her, 3 ) digging up her flower garden, 4) giving a bull a rock-filled milk can to butt so that "terrific noises would result...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 29, 1948 | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

...neither the janitor, Caretakers' Office, or Real Estate Division was willing to evict or sanction the animals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fish Face Exile From Residence | 3/25/1948 | See Source »

Wisdom of Solomon. In Vastervik, Sweden, the rent control board forbade Landlord Axel William Thunberg to evict Tenant Kustaa Joeesaar for snoring, but ordered the tenant to soundproof his bedroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 2, 1948 | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

Sound Reasoning. In Buffalo, the City Court denied Landlady Anna Kaitz the right to evict Hyman N. Barden because his snoring sounds like "a locomotive pulling freight cars up a grade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 19, 1947 | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

...appellate term of New York's Supreme Court denied a Manhattan apartment operator the right to evict one Leon Mahler simply because Miss Bernice Zvelechovski had been living with him without benefit of clergy for six years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Mar. 3, 1947 | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

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