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Kills Big Groundhog.

Friday, September 19, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, November 6, 1912

Edward Carpenter Stays Specimen Weighing 45 pounds. Penfield, Ill., Nov. 5.-Groundhogs, which are a great curiosity in central Illinois, but more numerous in northern Illinois, are almost unknown in Champaign county. A specimen killed by Edward Carpenter in the timber near Penfield, weighed forty-five pounds and attracted much attention. it was the first reported in […]

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Chipmunks In A Cemetery.

Thursday, May 30, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, August 24, 1898

They Are Increasing So Rapidly in Brooklyn’s Greenwood That a Trapper May Be Called In. Greenwood cemetery is suffering for the second time in its history from too great increase in its colony of chipmunks. Eighteen years ago they became such a nuisance that a trapper was employed, and 28,000 small, stripped pelts were the […]

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Poisoned Oats Used To Kill Farm Pests.

Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, November 3, 1922

Three Million Prairie Dogs are Wiped Out in 20 Counties in Colorado. By Michael F. Dacey, International News Service, Staff Correspondent Denver, Nov. 3-Sixty tons of poison oats, scattered over farm lands in twenty Colorado counties, has resulted in the distruction of three million prairie dogs, with a saving estimated at approximately $500,000 to farmers […]

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