Miscellany, Oct. 28, 1940

Shoo!

In Tonopah, Nev., Mrs. Emery Garrett found a coyote prowling among her turkeys, yelled "Shoo!" It did — through a window of her house into the bathtub, where Mrs. Garrett's nephew, Harry Lewis, shot the baffled creature dead.

Boy

In Troy, N. Y., police found a fresh grave marked: "Boy Buried Here Sept. 14, 1940." Alarmed, they dug in, unearthed a dead puppy. Name: "Boy."

Remorse

In Seattle, Pastor J. O. Brekke of Zion Church of the Lutheran Brethren, who caught the heaviest salmon to qualify for the Sept. 29 salmon derby (TIME,...

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