“Napoleon has come back. There were many who thought that he couldn’t but old Na[p] evidently prized his dear old collech town too much and the meals which he gets at the Skull fraternity during the college year to abandon this city for Cortland.
Yep, that is where Napoleon has been. About a week ago some Jane with an enticing smile showed her teeth to Nap as she calmly reposed in the tufted cushion of a big seven-passenger touring car in front of the Ithaca Hotel. And the dog fell for the feminine charms of the enchantress. Nap didn’t have to smile to show his teeth, but nevertheless he was pleased for into the tonneau he hopped.
That was the last seen of Napoleon for a week until this morning when he was again seen about his usual haunts on State street. How he got back to Ithaca no one knows. Maybe he hoofed it al the way, but more likely he came in some returning automobile with some one who knew him. He was seen around the fair grounds at Dryden yesterday and probably came home in an Ithaca automobile last night. Yesterday afternoon Napoleon called at the Journal tent on the fair grounds and hung around for quite a while getting acquainted with many of the hundreds of frequenters of the tent. He seemed to be right at home under the roomy canopy, too. Maybe he is wise to the fact that he would get a little more free advertising if he stuck around long enough for some member of the staff to see him.”

Source

“Napoleon is Back from Dryden Fair and Cortland Trip: Wise Dog Has Had a Week’s Excursion to Nearby Burgs and Showed Up Smiling This Morning in His Old Haunts,” Ithaca Daily Journal, September 5, 1913, 6, https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=idj19130905-01.1.6

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