Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, April 24, 1875
    While Dr. Lewis’ horse was hitched on the street yesterday, three or four cows passed by, when one of the animals, probably under the mistaken impression that the doctor had refused to sign the petition to allow cows to run at large, made a dive at the horse, inserting one of its horns into his […]
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Published in the Dixon Telegraph and Lee County Harald, Dixon, Illinois on Wednesday, May 16, 1855
    Singular.-The Paw Paw Free Press mentions a singular occurrence which took place in that village last week Wednesday. That evening a cow belonging to one of the citizens there, exhibited symptums which led to the belief that she had been bitten by a massaga, [a small species of rattlesnake,] and in order the more […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, October 3, 1902
Then their was explosion and sudden shower of meat. Â Â Â Â Thirteen cows, the property of Claude Peters, a dairyman near Martinsburg, Pa., were destroyed recently by attempting to eat dynamite. The detonation could be heard for a mile in every direction. The cows were blown many feet into the air, and not a single one […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, August 5, 1819
Cow Feasts on Angler’s Prize Salmon and Tops Off Lunch With Trout He Flung at Her. Â Â Â Â The angler could cast a fly, and had caught trout in the south of England, but had never so much as seen a salmon river. Great was his joy, therefore, when one day he received an invitation to […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, November 3, 1922
By International News Service     Birmingham, Ala., Nov. 3-The increasing popularity of the mountain variety of Alabama “moonshine” was effectively demonstrated during the hearing of a case in J. Q. Smith’s division of the Circuit Court here. Evidence adduced also brought out the fact that a new field has opened up for the activities of […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, September 2, 1898
    Rufus D. Shupstring, a farmer, of Safford, Ala., noticed some time ago that one of his cows was not giving her usual quantity of milk, and, thinking that some of the negroes were milking the cow at night, set out to watch her when, to his surprise, he saw four pigs out of a […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, February 24, 1922
    Mention of a bull in a china shop suggests destruction swift and complete, but a cow spent a quarter of an hour in a china shop in the main street of Tipperary without breaking or upsetting a single article. Entering the shop while the owner was absent, it went behind the counter and then […]
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, March 27, 1901
    At Otterbein University the other night, says the Indianapolis Press, a Jersey cow, with “Your Valentine” painted on its side, was placed in the recitation room of Prof. Snavely with a dozen pumpkins and several shocks of fodder. During the night the cow pushed its head through a window pane and broke several seats.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, October 17, 1922
Mrs. Mary Guerin Attacked by Infuriated Animal Which Broke Thru Fence. Dog Battled With Cow. Â Â Â Â Trampled under the hoofs of an infuriated cow, Mrs. Mary Guerin, who makes her home with her brother, John Rahling, at Wadsworth, was saved from death by Rahling’s dog, which attacked the cow and after a terrific battle between […]
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Wednesday, December 29, 1880
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune on 12/29/1880. A Wild Animal Afflicted With Hydrophobia Creates Consternation in Christian County. Correspondence St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Â Â Â Â Reed’s Springs, Christian Co., Mo., Dec. 24.- On the evening of the 20th, while Mr. Carroll was walking home along the highway, about three miles below this place, on Bear Creek, […]