Saturday, September 11, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, April 12, 1901
    Carbondale, Ills., April 12.-A unique condition seems to exist at Anna, where for several months an epidemic of smallpox has raged to such an extent that the public schools have been closed and services in the churches have temporarily suspended. In a residence where the occupants have been afflicted with the disease it has […]
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, April 12, 1921
    Baby Marie-she’s a cat-spat, yowled and scratched, when a burgler broke into the home of Mrs. Westley C. Force of Chicago. The burgler beat it.
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, December 8, 1922
    From Prince Edward Island comes this remarkable picture of two valuable silver foxes and their foster-mother, a cat who has mothered them from infancy. The foxes are among those on Rosebank Fur Farm, the largest breeding place of silver foxes in the world.
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, October 3, 1922
    When members of the Rockaway Park [N. Y.] engine company slide down the brass pole, their cat mascot Hans does so, too.
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, July 20, 1922
 By International News Service.     Punxsutawney, Pa., July 20.-An old cat’s mother love was greater than her aversion to water. Under the rear porch of Mr. and Mrs. C. K. McCartney’s house is an old abandoned well. The water is sixteen feet below the ground surface and is several feet deep.     While the […]
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, February 22, 1901
Demented New Jersey Tailor Feeds on Pickled Tabbies. Â Â Â Â A Newark, N. J., tailor is charged with forcing his young children to eat cat meat. He had killed the cat, pickled it, then ate some of it himself and compelled his children to follow suit. He is thought to be partially insane. He says that […]
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, March 8, 1901
San Francisco Furnishes Ratters For Stores And Warehouses. Â Â Â Â There is an odd little man named Echnier who lives in an odd little house in the heart of the busiest portion of San Francisco, who earns his bread oddly enough. His business is the raising of cats, which he puts into warehouses, stores and other […]
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, October 11, 1912
Louis Miller Taken To Chicago Wednesday Night-To Take Treatment. Â Â Â Â Gurnee, Ill., Oct. 3.-Louis Miller, of Lamb’s Corners, was rushed to Chicago Wednesday night to take treatment at the Pasteur Institute. Â Â Â Â Miller was badly bitten by a dog last Sunday. The dog was shot and his head was taken to Chicago for examination. The […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, January 5, 1912
    Averring that thirty-five pet cats and two dogs had superseded him in his wife’s affections, and ranked higher than he in the household, Samuel W. Odell, of Bethel, Kan., a civil war veteran, 74 years old, has sued Sarah L. Odell for divorce. His experiences in Andersonville prison during the Civil war were pleasant, […]
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, July 11, 1907
Brings it home alive by the nape of the neck. Â Â Â Â Dr. McConnell of Tulsa, I. T., has the latest snake story. It is a true story and hasn’t any of the dream elements about it. Â Â Â Â Dr. McConnell was sitting on the porch when he saw a cat coming up the lawn dragging a […]