Word: strays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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County Commissioner Add Thacher decided recently to turn Toledo stray dogs over to the Toledo Animal Shelter Association to be given away. He had been giving them to the Humane Society to be kept for three days and killed as Ohio law demands. Last week U. S. Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown, Toledo Humane Society's president, wrote the Commissioner that his procedure was illegal. Strays must be sold or killed. Retorted Commissioner Thacher: ". . . The Animal Shelter Association pays 1? for each...
...thereabouts. - Roy T. Davis, U. S. Minister to Panama, rushed upon the scene while a few stray bullets were still flying...
...would have to stop, otherwise she wouldn't be eating anything at all, but would still feel fine." Will more research in health-biology and chemistry-mean less in electricity- and mechanics? "No, it brings new fields to work in." Whereupon, after a few more questions & answers on stray subjects, Dr. Edison tucked a napkin in his collar and quietly swigged his ration of milk from a thermos bottle...
...Vermont since 1923. U. S. Representative from 1912 to 1923, Spanish-American War veteran, onetime (1917-23) regent of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington; after an operation for hernia; in St. Albans, Vt. He had been partially paralyzed since 1924, when he was hit in the head by a stray bullet fired in a Washington street fight between Prohibition agents and 'leggers...
Scouts of the dog racket work in wealthy neighborhoods, observing dogs and little boys. They encourage the boys to bring them stray dogs at first, paying small sums. They then offer larger sums for household pets. Sometimes racketeers pose as A. S. P. C. A. officials, snatch up dogs when they are taken out for an airing. Dogs caught in one State are often sent to another State to be sold. Purchasers asking for an expensive dog in unscrupulous shops will almost always get what they want. The pet shop owner will have a scout steal one to order...