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A Remarkable Dog.

Saturday, July 17, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 5, 1878

     “Old Frank” is a hunting dog that used to hang around the newspaper offices of St. Joseph, Mo. Mr. Joseph Crane took “Old Frank” to his house. Mr. Crane had an old hen, with seven or eight chickens that had bin hatched out a couple of weeks. For some cause the unnatural mother deserted […]

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A Pet Wolf’s Freaks.

Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, May 11, 1878

     A remarkable wolf-story is that told by Mr. Christ Pahl, of Buffalo Township. He brought a wolf’s skull into the country Auditor’s office, and said he had prepared it for the zoological cabinet in the Academy. He stated that the wolf was captured when a cub, had been raised at his house with a […]

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Wolves And Farmer Fight

Monday, May 10, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, December 20, 1909

       Simon Helms, farmer, near Elkinsville, fourteen miles south of here, battled for almost an hour with a pack of wolves, which killed several sheep, raided a chicken coop and drove Helms family into the house after they had been severely injured by the enraged animals, which were finally driven off.      Last winter […]

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Feeds Husband To Chickens.

Saturday, April 24, 2010
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, February 13, 1903

Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois Woman Accused of Killing and Grinding Up Her Husband. Mrs. Lafayette Taylor is a prisoner in Monticello, N. Y., charged with killing her husband on Tuesday, Jan. 27. On that day Lafe Taylor disappeared and his wife told the neighbors he had gone to Ellensville on business. […]

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Wild Hogs As Watchdogs.

Saturday, April 17, 2010
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Monday, March 6, 1916

Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on March 6, 1916.      In some parts of Mexico the wild hogs, which the natives call jaballs, are used as watchdogs. If they are caught young and brought up with goats they will go out into the hills with the herd and fight coyotes or other […]

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Grasshopper Trapper Finds Pigs Dote On The New Delicacy

Saturday, April 17, 2010
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Monday, August 18, 1919

Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on August 18, 1919.      Pana, Ill. Aug. 17.-Finding that his second clover crop was being destroyed by grasshoppers, Cyrus W. Rayhill spent $19 to build a grasshopper trap. Last week he caught eighteen bushels of grasshoppers. He dried the insects and fed them to the hogs […]

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