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  • The Gingham Dogand the Calico Cat

    The Gingham Dog
    and the Calico Cat

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    Wrong! Yes, the book is so titled, but the poem’s correct title is, The Duel; the story of a cat and dog fight between two stuffed animals in the middle of the night. Publishing, like everything else in life, is cyclical. Publishing children’s books hit one of its high-watermarks in 1912. The market boomed. Publishers in…

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Motor oil and doughnuts are not often talked about in the same paragraph, but at the 1933 World’s Fair in Chicago these two very dissimilar products befuddled the fair’s visitors. And from almost any place on the fairgrounds you could learn the exact temperature of the world around you.

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