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...Fanny!" I shall be glad, indeed, to serve as Regional Secretary for a chapter of a Society for the Prevention of the misuse of the name "Fanny." It might prove simpler, however, to have the "Fanny chapters" a subsidiary of the "Johns." (Miss) FANNY PARKER Des Moines, Iowa Diminishing Otter Sirs: Probably like others, I have been amused by the interest and concern aroused in some of your readers by the unhappy condition of the poor little koala in Australia and have heartily seconded Mr. Dow's suggestion that Mrs. Schroeder's $50 be applied to the preservation...
Into Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel one morning last week rushed a svelte young woman in a Chinese otter coat, carrying in her arms a small, kicking, whining bundle of black & white fur. Said she to a room clerk: "I am Mrs. William H. Harkness and this is my baby panda...
...Cape country Author Harriss writes about was a fox country. Bears still snuffled through the woods, and otter and coon and deer were plentiful, but the only enemy foxes had to fear was man. In the swamp where the Vixen bore her litter lived one of them, an Indian trapper. No sport, he killed for his living. But he accounted for fewer foxes than the local hunt, whose master was the hard-drinking widower Cap'n, squire of a plantation falling to seed almost as swiftly as himself. Of the Vixen's litter, two died in traps...
Three hundred members of the Otter Tail County Farmers' Holiday Association last week clumped into the county courthouse in Fergus Falls, Minn, to stop the foreclosure sale of a farm owned by one Abraham Matson. Leading the crowd marched a public-spirited Unitarian clergyman, Rev. John Flint, 50, outraged that the auction was to take place even though Farmer Matson was home sick. When County Coroner Curtis, substituting as auctioneer for recently deceased County Sheriff O. J. Tweten, put the customary question, "Is there any objection to conducting this sale?" 300 barnyard voices bellowed "Yes!" Coroner Curtis promptly granted...
...Vancouver Board of Trade were guests of the Vernon, B. C., Rotary Club. Someone sang the Ogopogo song, the Rotarians picked it up, went Ogopogo hunting. But long before that Indians had seen the mysterious lake-serpent. Most likely explanation is that the Ogopogo is a mother otter followed by her pups swimming in tandem...