Saturday, December 9, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, December 16, 1852
The Cleveland Herald chronicles the following Cat story; A lady who resides on Bond street, kept in a closet in her bed room, a plate of crackers for her children, and upon several occasions had unlocked the door and given one of the crackers to her favorite cat. A few days since, while the lady […]
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, January 20, 1909
Their Mission is to Fight Rats Which Spread the Plague. Washington, Jan. 30-Five thousand cats whose mission is to serve as rat destroyers in fair Japan, have been shipped from Chicago. The purpose of this curious feline invasion is to aid in fighting the plague which is spread by rodents.
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, October 11, 1909
Animals Watch the Body of Recluse Thought Murdered by Robbers. Wallingford, Vt., Oct. 11.- Watched over by fourteen cats, which were her only companions in life, the body of Mary J. Johnson, sixty-seven years old, was found in her home under circumstances indicating murder. Robbery, it is thought. was the motive. Miss Johnson had lived […]
Saturday, October 8, 2016
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Wednesday, February 6, 1732
About a Fortnight ago Mr. Evett, a Hatter at Lambeth, sitting in the Parlor, a strange little Cat came in, and running up his leg, bit his Finger, which immediately bled very much. He worried that the Cat was mad, for the pain struck to his heart, and he continued out of order till Saturday, […]
Saturday, August 23, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily News, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, December 5, 1898
Puss Meets With a New Kind of Creature and Has a Hard Time of It. Farmer Egerton has a large cat named Scrapper which has long been the terror of all the dogs and cats in the neighborhood. One day lately he met his match in a large turtle. Discovering the queer creature taking a […]
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Tuesday, March 13, 1855
The editor of the Albany Register having been disturbed by assemblage of cats under his window thus gives vent to his indignation: But those cats, in our opinion, are in danger and we warn all who have any interest in them either present or in expectancy, to look after them. We have been constrained to […]
Saturday, August 31, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, July 13, 1904
Wisconsin Woman Changes She Was Forced to Display Culinary Art on Feline Instead of Rabbit. Racine, Wis., July 13.-Judge Belden, of the circuit court has granted a divorce to Mattie J. Spaulding from Dr. J. Spaulding one of the most prominent physicians of Kenosha. Mrs. Spaulding was married in 1903, and she alleges that within […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, December 2, 1898
An Instance Which Shows That Dumb Beasts Can Be as Kind as Men. A herd of wild Asian buffaloes will charge any foe, even a tiger, to save the life of one of their number who has been wounded. Elephants, baboons and other animals will do the same in a wild state. On the other […]
Saturday, February 2, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, May 3, 1907
Cat farms are numerous all over the country and that there is money in ostrich farms is proven by the fact that there are at present several in the United States that are paying handsomely.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, June 15, 1908
Because the students of the Kansas University, at Lawrence, are stealing all the cats they find loose in the town for dissection in the zoology classes the people of the city have applied to the state authorities for assistance. They demand that the state furnish the cats to the university and that cats be sent […]