Police Reports Concerning Dogs -- 49 ORIGINAL handwritten docs: 1919-1923, PA For Sale

standout details in the documents include:

• a dog observed riding on the running board of an automobile;
• a supposedly stolen dog reportedly seen aboard one of Scranton's taxicabs;
• repeated complaints concerning barking and unlicensed neighborhood dogs;
• a dispute involving dogs accused of killing chickens, complicated by an unpaid grocery-store debt;
• a dog deliberately poisoned on several occasions;
• a police officer shooting a severely injured dog “to relieve its suffering”;
• children bitten while walking to or attending school;
• a thirteen-year-old newspaper carrier bitten while delivering papers;
• a bread deliveryman bitten while working;
• a priest reporting the disappearance of his Airedale;
• a child bitten by a dog whose owner allegedly refused police entry while intoxicated, with the officer recording that the man operated a grocery and had a trade in “home made hootch” during Prohibition;
• police involvement with the city's Dog Catcher, Poundmaster, Pound Keeper, physicians, veterinarians, precinct officers, and municipal sanitation personnel.