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This walk was exactly as chaotic as you can imagine
March 1944, William PowellandAsta the DoggreetMyrna Loy as she returns from a two year “retirement from the screen” during which time she devoted herself to assisting with the (WWII) War Effort.
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The Following People Do Not Want to Chloroform the Puppies
In November, 1940, 10-year-old Kay Rae Roberts, pictured above left, fell in love with a fox terrier who had wandered into the home of her grandfather. She refused to leave without the dog, so home the dog came to 5415 Portland Ave. S, Minneapolis. Five weeks later, ‘Trixie,’ as Kay Ray named her, was discovered to be expecting. Later that night, Kay Rae overheard her parents talking–what to do with a house full of puppies?! “Perhaps we’ll have to chloroform them,” her mother said.
The next day, without a word, Kay Rae relayed the news to her classmates at Hale Elementary School and a petition was born. One particularly distraught child stopped at the Roberts home that evening and declared: “If the puppies are chloroformed, we’ll picket the house.”
Fortunately for the children, Mrs. Roberts was merely joking. “I couldn’t even chloroform a fly,” she declared. When the four puppies were born on Christmas Eve, everyone rejoiced. “Now I know what it is to become a father,” Kay Rae said with a sigh. She named the puppies Dick, Jerry, Don, and Bud.
March 23, 2022 is National Puppy Day.Photo P70606 from the Newspaper Photograph Collection in the Hennepin County Library Digital Collections. Story summarized from an article printed in the Minneapolis Tribune December 29, 1940.
