Miscellany, Jun. 14, 1943

Black Market. In Little Rock, Minn., farmers looking for a chicken-stealing fox found his den, in it found a vixen, seven cubs, 25 chickens, several pheasants, an owl, two toads, a muskrat and a pig.

Pot Luck? In Chicago, a thief who may or may not have known what he was doing stole William Mercur's typewriter, which writes only in Hebrew.

Man & Beast. In a Bronx courtroom, Mrs. Ella Taffe charged that when she complained to Butcher Joseph Scott about a chicken he had sold her he hit her over the head ten times with a side of beef.

Quiet, Please! In Washington,...

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