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  1. Wikipedia (wikipedia@wikis.world)'s status on Saturday, 04-Nov-2023 02:03:29 UTC Wikipedia Wikipedia

    On this day in 1910, a cow named Pauline arrived at the White House.

    Photo via Library of Congress, text via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Wayne

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    2. Pauline Wayne
      Pauline Wayne was a Holstein cow that belonged to William Howard Taft, the 27th President of the United States. Also known as "Miss Wayne", Pauline was not Taft's first presidential cow: she replaced the lesser-known "Mooly Wooly", which provided milk for the First Family for a year and a half before suddenly dying in 1910, reportedly after eating too many oats. Taft and his wife, Helen Herron Taft, had growing children, and Taft was a notoriously large eater; accordingly, Mooly Wooly was replaced by Pauline Wayne. Wisconsin senator Isaac Stephenson bought Pauline Wayne for Mrs. Taft. The four-year-old cow was pregnant and gave birth to a male calf named "Big Bill" (after the President), which was later sent to a Maryland farm.Pauline Wayne became a popular showpiece at the International Dairymen’s Exposition in Milwaukee in 1911. Pauline Wayne was being shipped to the show in a private train car that was attached to a whole train of cattle cars bound for the Chicago stock yards. The cow went missing for two days because a train switch crew had mistakenly switched Pauline’s car. The attendants who found Pauline Wayne convinced the stock yard that this was indeed...

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