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Oxen.

Sunday, October 6, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, May 12, 1852

The imperial academy of China has issued a text under the auspices of the emperor, cautioning the celestials against the wickedness of slaughtering oxen and dogs for food, as they possess immortal souls and are gifted with reason and intelligence.

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Driving Oxen.

Sunday, February 10, 2013
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Friday, April 6, 1849

Those having the care of these useful animals should never drive them so fast as to cause them great fatigue. A certain writer in remarking upon this subject, says: “We sometimes see these animals moving so slow in the field and on the road that we can scarcely tell which way they are going. This […]

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Distressing Details Of The Great Storm In Minnesota.

Friday, December 21, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 1, 1873

The details of the great storm in Minnesota are heart sicking. The reports from different sections indicate terrible loss of life and property. In Winnebago City fully sixty teams had gathered from the surrounding country. Farmers with their wives were there, having left their little children at home, in many instances alone, little dreaming of […]

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Quite a Team.

Sunday, February 26, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, November 15, 1856

     The Belvidere Standard says there was a wagon belonging to an emigrant that lately made its appearance in that place, drawn by fourteen yoke of oxen. That would be called quite a team in the old country.

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Strange Instinct in Animals.

Friday, February 17, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 11, 1858

     Various interesting facts have been noted in relation to the demeaner of animals pior to a great convulsion. It was towards noon, beneath a clear and almost cloudless sky, with the sea breeze freshly blowing, that the cities of Conseption and Talcahuano, on the coast of South America, were desolated in 1835. At ten […]

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