Animals: Owney Travels Again

Every other year the National Federation of Post Office Clerks holds a convention to discuss ways & means of solving the greatest human problem: how to get more money for less work. Next week the union will convene in Toledo, Ohio. Present, besides delegates from 2,600 locals, will be Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley, Governors Davey of Ohio and Murphy of Michigan. Dignitaries though they are, it is doubtful whether they will be able to steal the limelight from a mongrel dog, 40 years dead.

One day in 1888, a wistful little cur...

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