Thursday, December 15, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, November 24, 1877
    The Virginia [Nev] Enterprise tells this affecting story: “Charles Kaiser, who has the only hive of bees in town, says that when he first got his swarm his old cat’s curiosity was much excited in regard to the doings of the little insects the like of which she had never before seen. At first […]
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Published in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Thursday, June 23, 1870
A lady at Beloit, Wisconsin, a few days since, found in the nest of a sitting hen four kittens who had not got their eyes open.
Friday, November 11, 2011
Published in the Chicago Tribune, Chicag, Ilinois on Saturday, March 12, 1870
The New Albany Ledger says: At the depot of the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway, in the office of the Superintendent, is, or was, a fine Maltese cat, famous as a ratter, and a tabby to be proud of. But last night pussy went upon a predatory excursion against her natural enemies the rats, […]
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, April 22, 1912
    A man down in Massachusetts found a blacksnake frozen in the snow. He took the snake up carefully so that it would not break-it was stiff as the rod of Moses in the original form-and took it home and put it by the fire. And it thawed out. It wriggled around in the heat […]
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 28, 1901
Rat Catchers That Are Paid by the Government.     Several years ago a letter containing a large sum of money disappeared, from the New York post office, writes Hugh Netherton, in Ladies Home Journal, in telling of “Cats That Draw Salaries.” A month after the disappearance a desk in one of the rooms was moved, […]
Friday, September 16, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, November 11, 1898
    Cats can swim if they only care to exert themselves sufficiently. The ancient Egyptians used to fish with them on the Nile, according to the representations on the walls, etc. that have come down to us.
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, October 9, 1916
Maltese and Four Kittens Discovered Far Up in Tree. Â Â Â Â New York.-High in a maple tree a Maltese cat belonging to Mickael Dooley, owner of a saloon on Union street, Flushing, purred over her four brand new kittens. She had carried to the spot material for what might be called a nest. Lying on guard […]
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Saturday, November 8, 1823
    A county gentleman who is neither a friend to thieves nor poachers, has at this moment in his household a favorite cat, whose honesty, he is sorry to say, there is but too much reason the call in question. The animal, however, is far from being selfish in her principles for her acceptable gleanings […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, June 10, 1918
Sheep Run to the Hills, Hogs Grunt as a Signal, Dogs Fashion Their Own Bed. Â Â Â Â Sheep, when frightened, always run to an elevation, because their ancestors originally came from the mountains. They always follow a leader, because in the dangerous mountain passes their ancestors had to go in single file. Hogs grunt because their […]
Friday, September 17, 2010
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, January 31, 1896
    Wild cats abound in Pleasant Valley woods, a few miles east of Winsted, Conn., and recently became so bold that they attacked human beings, almost sending to death one of the farmers of the neighborhood. The other day a party was organized to hunt the felines and five of the latter, one of them […]