I once went to my neighborhood United States Post Office to mail some parcel-post packages to family on the west coast. As I was deciding whether to use parcel post or priority service, the clerk asked me if the boxes contained anything that was liquid, fragile, or had batteries. The clerk did not, however, ask […]
Archive for the ‘Christmas Cat Tales’ Category
1906: Merry Christmas from the Parcel-Post Kitten of Yorkville
Posted: 24th December 2014 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Christmas Cat TalesTags: Christmas kitten, Edison Phonograph Toy Manufacturing Company, New York History, Post Office history, talking doll, Thomas Edison Talking Doll, Yorkville
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1922: A Christmas Feast for Woo-Ki and the Pirate Cats of Chelsea Piers
Posted: 17th December 2013 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Christmas Cat TalesTags: Cat Stories, Chelsea Piers, Chelsea Pirate Cats, New York History, pirate cats, RMS Olympic, Sam Meders
During World War I and World War II, hundreds of cats from all over the world were left stranded on the Chelsea Piers in New York when the troopships they had stowed away on left the harbor without them. The news media called them the “Chelsea Pirate Cats.”
1899: Olympia, the Dewey Arch Cat of New York, and Her Christmas Kittens
Posted: 12th December 2013 by The Hatching Cat in Christmas Cat TalesTags: Cat Stories, Commodore George Dewey, Dewey Arch, New York History, USS Olympia
Prior to May 1898, 60-year old Commodore George Dewey was a little-known leader of the U.S. Navy’s Asiatic Fleet. All that changed during the Spanish-American War, when Dewey was wired from Washington to attack the Spanish navy in retaliation for Spain’s assail on the U.S.S. Maine in Havana Harbor. In honor of his success, New […]
