Our Dumb Animals, Volume 74, Number 12. December 1941 (The Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals & The American Humane Education Society)

Vintage WWII era magazine that gives an idea of what people were thinking about in their daily lives and animals and wartime issues. The Christmas Issue. Included: Tragedies of the Highways by Fern Berry; The Remarkable Water Buffalo by Ewen K. Patterson; Pets as Christmas Gifts by T.J. McInerney; Merry Christmas to the Birds by Margaret Nickerson Martin; Beneath the Cedars (about Bob-White) by Alvin M. Peterson; Vacation Victims (about pets being brought on vacation and lost) by Ethel Cloyd; The Graceful Waxwings by A. Leonard Butts; The Amusing and Useful Cat by Clara Manderschied; Hawthorne and His Cats by Mary Agnes Colville; Don't Pity the Bees (bee experiments by the US govenment (USDA) in 1941; Article about Eric H. Hanson of the American Humane Association; Veterinary Column by L. H. Scamman of Angell Memorial Hospital; Chicago and the Rodeo; Report of Fez Fondouk, Morocco by Guy Delon; a Bedouin Trait by Mary Agnes Colville; When Winter Comes (taking care of pets and wildlife in winter) by T.J. McInerney; How Many Birds by Alfred I. Tooke; A Bird Table by Fred Cornelius; After the First Snow by John Ritchey; Humae Clubs of Detroit; Poetry by Maude E. Uschold, Judy Van der Veer, Kadra Maysi, Marjorie Hunt Pettit, Jessie M. Dowlin, Anne Marshall Verner, Minnie Leona Upton, Harry Elmore Hurd, Ellen D. Masters, Celia Thaxter, Louise Darcy, McLeod Orford, Jessie M. Dowlin; Photograph of actress Katharine Cornell and her pet.