Thursday, January 17, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, March 16, 1909
You see it was this way. The dog saw the cat and chased it. The cat naturally ran. It sought refuge between a blacksmith shop and a private dwelling on Washington street and there it stuck. The dog pursued and it stuck between the walls also. A crowd gathered, clothes poles and broom sticks were […]
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, January 4, 1834
A women residing in Plymouth, Mass. who was very partial to cats, purchased one some time since for its superior beauty, which, however, for some untold reason, she was desirous of destroying. To effect this, she immersed the cat in a bucket of water, with a weight around its neck, from which it soon escaped […]
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 7, 1882
The London News gives this: A cat, all black, except its perfectly white tail, was presented to the town of Agnone, Italy, many years ago. They put it in the theater to clear it of rats. They soon found that the cat was fraternizing with the rodents, and had become their king, and shared its […]
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 9, 1865
A cat is not generally considered a very teachable animal. But there is one in a store in Concord, N. H., that has been taught to cut with its teeth the twine with which packages are tied, and performs its work with much dexterity. It is even impatient to execute the feat before the package […]
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, September 5, 1849
The Boston Traveler gives the following account of a singular death from fright in that city. The following cause of death was reported at the interment office: It appears that some days ago a boy, named Joseph Kennedy, six years of age while sitting in the kitchen at home, received a severe shock of fright […]
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 23, 1919
A cat belonging to a young lady residing in North street, St. Andrews, Scotland, went missing. A search was made, and the loss was advertised, and all hope of the return of puss was given up. After the cat had been absent for 24 days a maid, on cleaning the drawing room of the house […]
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 13, 1877
The Central City [Col] Register relates this story: W. W. Ramage, Corbett Bacon, his brother Judge Bacon, and Dr. Paul reside in the mining and voting precinct established long years ago by the Georgian explorer, Green Russell and in honor of that indomitable pioneer christened ‘Russell Gulch.’ Rumage was the owner of a very remarkable […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, April 28, 1877
It is not often that we hear any credit rendered to the cat for either intelligence or affection, and it is therefore pleasing to be able to record an instance in which one if not both of these qualities is shown in a remarkable manner in this animal. A gentleman writing from India recently to […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 9, 1877
While at the residence of Almon Webb in the township of Antioch the other day, we witnessed a somewhat novel spectacle, it being nothing less than the caressing of a pair of young coons by a cat which had adopted them. Some two or three weeks since someone in the neighborhood killed an old coon […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 29, 1880
    A young fox taken from a litter was placed with a litter of kittens at Watkinsville, Ga., a few days ago. The mother cat at once adopted it, and now evinces a much greater interest in it than in any of the rest of her family.