Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1920 — First Man-Eating Shark of Year Caught in Potomac [ARTICLE]

First Man-Eating Shark of Year Caught in Potomac

Washington.—lt remained for the poor old Potomac river to furnish the first “man-eating shark” of the 1920 season. A local newspaper published a first page story of an eight and a half-foot wolf of the sea, at Piney Point, Md., which is considerable distance up the Potomac, but where the water still is salt. A doctor in the fishing party, according to the account, removed the shark’s teeth and presented them as souvenirs to the other members of the party. Piney Point is not a summer resort.