Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, May 8, 1850
As the train from New York to Philadelphia, Monday morning, was leaving Jersey City, it ran over a cow. One of the passengers put his head out of the car to ascertain the cause of the difficulty, when he was instantly killed, by striking his head against a telegraph post.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, November 2, 1922
International News Service. Denton, Tex., Nov. 2-Looping the end of a rope, by which he was leading a cow to water, over his head, John Terry, eight-year-old son of Ed Terry, a farmer, nine miles from here, was watching a passing automobile. The cow became frightened and ran, dragging the boy for about 200 yards. […]
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, March 15, 1834
The docility and domestic habits of Cows are quite amusing sometimes. There is a venerable old pet creature in this town, who is accustomed to steal a march of the family with whom she resides and eat up the miscellaneous matter deposited in the kitchen. She occasionally walks into the back part of the house […]
Friday, February 17, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 11, 1858
    Various interesting facts have been noted in relation to the demeaner of animals pior to a great convulsion. It was towards noon, beneath a clear and almost cloudless sky, with the sea breeze freshly blowing, that the cities of Conseption and Talcahuano, on the coast of South America, were desolated in 1835. At ten […]
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, July 29, 1907
    Frank Robben of St. Louis had a dairy, but no cows. He was arrested with his two sons on the charge of stealing milk, and the younger boy confessed that every morning they went out and stole every bottle and can of milk they could find on the steps of residences, stores and restaurants. […]
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Sunday, November 2, 1873
The last number of the Popular Science Monthly contains an article on the survival of instincts, which details some cruel and apparently abnormal habits among domestic animals, and traces them to early developments of necessity. By repetition they have acquired the force of instinct. For instance, a gentleman living near Brooklyn recently tethered a turkey […]
Monday, November 28, 2011
Published in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, February 25, 1871
They have a remarkable cow in Alpens, Michigan. The Pioneer, of that place, says: “The other day Mr. Wilkenbury’s cow entered Mrs. Sprague’s kitchen, while she was absent, by bursting open the door, ate the bread off the table, emptied a jar of preserves and gobbled them up, then went into the bedroom, pulled the […]
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 10, 1856
Mr. Levi D. Wilcox states that there is in the Town of Crown Point, N. Y., a cow that has had thirteen calves within the last three years, viz: eight within the first year, two the next, and three this spring. The last five are still living. He challenges the world to beat this.
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Thursday, August 14, 1879
J. M. Henderson, of Arkadelphia, has a horse that saves him the trouble of keeping a dog, as he is as good as one in running hogs and cows out of the field. One day he was put in the yard back of our office, where a pig happened to get in, when he saw […]
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, February 14, 1898
Two Men Killed and Many Injured in a Missouri Railroad Disaster. Â Â Â Â A cow derailed the north-bound Texas special on the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway, part of the Missouri Pacific system, at Hermatite, thirty-six miles south of St. Louis, resulting in the death of the engineer and fireman and a slight injury […]