Owney, The Globe-Trotting Mail Mascot
by Elaine Faber
I ran across an
interesting story the other day about a little mutt dog that became the
nation’s Post Office mascot from 1888 - 1897. Owney, a little mixed terrier,
traveled for nine years across the nation’s railways on mail trains, always
returning to Albany, PA, a key division point on the New York Central railroad
system, one of the two largest railroads in the U.S. at that
I ran across an
interesting story the other day about a little mutt dog that became the
nation’s Post Office mascot from 1888 - 1897. Owney, a little mixed terrier,
traveled for nine years across the nation’s railways on mail trains, always
returning to Albany, PA, a key division point on the New York Central railroad
system, one of the two largest railroads in the U.S. at that
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