“Nap has the mange. Nap is short for Napoleon. Napoleon is long on friendship. Everybody in Ithaca is his friend and he has a kindly feeling for all.
Technically the Skull fraternity is the home of this pet bulldog, but his affection knows no bounds and all humankind is included on his list. It may be because he was too liberal with his friendship that he became subject to the ravages of the disease that mars the coat of even a thoroughbred.
A local veterinary is prescribing for Nap and promises that he will soon be in better condition to be petted.”

Source

“Nap, Far Too Liberal, Suffers Consequence: Everybody’s Pet Now in Care of a Veterinary for Cure of the Mange,” Ithaca Daily Journal, September 25, 1913, 7
http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn83031157/1913-09-25/ed-1/seq-7

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