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Wednesday, January 7, 2026

"A DOZEN WERE FEMALE & SIX WERE 'OFF COLOR'"

HOLLYWOOD WOMAN OFFERS 'FULL ROUND KISS' TO LUCKY MAN WHO RETURNS HER TOMCAT

Hollywood, California (JFK+50) On January 7, 1926, United News reports that yesterday "a full round kiss on the cheek" await the "lucky man who returns to Estelle Taylor her pretty black Tom cat."

By nightfall, Miss Taylor had "18 callers bearing cats."

Unfortunately, a dozen of them were female felines and six were "a little off color."

SOURCE

"Estelle Offers One Kiss to Lucky Man Who Finds Her Cat," The Washington Daily News, Washington, D.C., January 7, 1926, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/


Tony ginger tomcat
Photo by Jeanne boleyn
2012
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