From the April 14, 1934, issue

HO-HUM! LIVE “TEDDY” HAS YAWNY SPELLS, TOO

Koala, his proper name is; “native bear,” Australians have nicknamed him, though he is closer kin to our American opossum than to any bear. But he is the living prototype of the “Teddy bear” that has become a worldwide toy, persisting since the days of the first Roosevelt.