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Big Goat Ranch.

Saturday, October 11, 2014
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, November 28, 1902

Missouri is to Have the Largest Goat Farm in the world. The Frisco Livestock Company was organized in St. Louis for the purpose of maintaining an Angora ranch near Cuba, Mo., on the Frisco Railroad. The ranch will embrace 30,000 acres of timbered land. It will be stocked with 35,000 goats brought from New Mexico, […]

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Billy Goat Routs Entire School.

Saturday, February 2, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, September 29, 1911

School North of Wauconda is Suddenly Suspended With Neighboring “Butter” Butts into the School Affairs. In Newport township north of Zion City there is a little teacher that has conquered a whole school board. She had them all doing odd jobs around the school building and none of them can realize why they are so […]

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A Sensible Goat.

Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, August 31, 1833

It was related by one of the speakers of a late Temperance meeting, at a Baptist Church, Newark, that a favorite goat which had long been accustomed to follow its owner to a tippling house, where it usually lay on the stoop, waiting the master’s movement, was one night made as drunk as its master, […]

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Hit By Goat; Gets Insurance.

Sunday, July 3, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 11, 1905

Louisville Appraiser Obtains Accident Payment on Odd Claim.      Because he came in contact with the business end of one William Goat, Jack Richardson, chief appraiser in the office of the local port at Louisville, has been paid $12.50 by an accident insurance company. Mr. Richardson was spending his vacation on a farm near Glasgow, […]

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Cows And Goats

Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Sunday, September 14, 1879

     Neapolitan milkmen are very funny fellows. They do not have a milkwagon and horse or even a pail and dipper. They have only little three-legged stools tied to themselves [so that when they want to sit down they are all ready,] and they drive their goats and cows before them to the different houses, […]

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