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Sisters Fight Mad Bull.

Sunday, January 30, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, February 23, 1906

Animal Attacks Another, But Girls Succeed in Driving Him Away.      Winona, Minn.-In Saratoga, this county, lives James Ferrier, with two daughters, who are no strangers to fear, as has just been shown by their risking their lives to save a $200 shorthorn bull belonging to their father.      The animal had just been bought, […]

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A National Slaughter.

Sunday, January 30, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, July 28, 1905

     Statistics published in Spain state that during 1904 nearly 12,000 bulls were killed in Bull fights. The bulls killed about 10,000 horses. The best and most valuable bulls of the arena are raised on the vast estates of the Duke of Veragun, who has made a fortune out of his bussiness.

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Bull

Sunday, January 30, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 20, 1872

     On Tuesday Last, Isaac James Esq., of Fremont, in this county came very near losing his life in a contest with a beligerent bull that he was attempting to drive out of a grain field into which the animal had jumped. Although armed with a pitch-fork, that he used freely after the unruly bovine […]

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Gored By a Bull.

Sunday, January 30, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 26, 1865

     Patrick Bows, an Irishman, residing in this city, had a narrow escape from death on Thursday morning last. He was leading a Bull [his own property] to water, and as he was returning from the river the brute, for some reason unknown, became enraged, and turned ferociously upon Mr. Bows, knocking him down, treading […]

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Animals As Despots.

Saturday, July 10, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Sunday, March 5, 1905

  Tyranny of the pampered sacred Beasts of Asia.      In Benaras the Person Who ill Treats a Monkey Runs the Risk of Being torn to Pieces-How the Holy Bull Victimizes the Bazaar Man.      Readers of Kipling’s “Kim” which gives a better picture of Indian life than anything else in print, may recall how […]

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Twelve Die In Bull Fight.

Saturday, May 1, 2010
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, May 22, 1903

Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 05/22/1903.      A special dispatch from Madrid announces that in a bull fight at Algeciras the amphitheater collapsed and twelve persons were killed and fifty injured. Several women and children were gored by the bulls.

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Battles With A Bull.

Friday, April 30, 2010
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, May 15, 1903

Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 05/15/1903. Armed with a pitchfork a farmer’s wife holds animal at bay.      Armed with a pitchfork, Mrs. James Morton, a farmer’s plucky wife, living near Flanders, N. J., for nearly an hour kept at bay a vicious bull that had attacked and nearly killed her […]

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