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Monkey in a Muff.

Saturday, September 18, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, January 10, 1922

     A monkey was used by a clever woman thief to commit a series of thefts from jewelers’ shops in Paris. The creature was so tiny that she carried it in a big muff. Then while its mistress was standing at such distance from the counter as disarmed suspicion, the monkey would thrust out a […]

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Higher Life of Animals.

Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, June 10, 1876

  Remarkable Instances of Language and Combination.      In Mansfield Parkyn’s work on Abyssinia is a remarkable account of language and the consequent power of combination among the monkey tribe.      “You may see them quarreling, making love, mothers taking care of their children, combing their hair, nursing and suckling them; and the passions, jealousy, […]

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Boy Caged With Animals.

Saturday, May 1, 2010
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, June 26, 1903

Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois, on 06/26/1903. Stolen Child Tells of Terrible Treatment by Showmen.      Kidnapped by circus hands, John Layton, a 6-year-old boy, told the police at East St. Louis that his clothes had been taken from him, that his face and hands had been discolored as a disguise, and […]

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The Diseases Of Wild Animals

Saturday, April 24, 2010
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, November 1, 1879

  The Diseases Of Wild Animals. While First Surgeon of the thirty-first Regiment of the line, then stationed at Alabers, in Algeria. I dissected the carcasses of about fifty lions. The lungs of twenty of them were affected; one half of them were almost gone, showing that consumption [tuberculosis] is prevalent among the lions of […]

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Boa Swallows A Young Lion.

Saturday, April 24, 2010
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, August 20, 1897

  But Help Came, the Cub Was Rescued and the Boa Was Slain.      A boa constrictor will swallow anything at all when it wakes up hungry and finds that dinner is not ready. This is the story of a boa which swallowed a cub lion whole. The cub was recovered by an operation, but […]

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Monkey puts out a fire

Monday, March 1, 2010
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun on Sunday, January 1, 1899

Waukegan Daily Sun Published: January 1, 1899 Mrs. Peter Minetti of Belleville owns a monkey and confines it in a wire cage. The other day Mrs. Minetti put some fresh coal in the grate fire, locked up the house and went to visit some friends. A lump of burning coal fell to the floor and […]

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