Teddy bears first began to be produced in the early 1900s.
The story goes that the American President Theodore Roosevelt, who was known as Teddy, spotted a bear on a hunting trip but didn’t have the heart to shoot it. His feelings of compassion towards the creature inspired a series of satirical cartoons in an American newspaper, which prompted Morris Michtom, a New York businessman to manufacture the first ‘Teddy’s Bear’ – which later became known as a teddy bear.
Within a couple of years the sale of teddy bears was growing so quickly, he founded a soft toy company to produce them.
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