Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, September 25, 1903
Story of a Dog Traveler. Was raised on farm and has since become widely known. Jack is the name of a dog that is known to everybody in Rushville, Ind., and which makes that place headquarters while he travels to all the towns within thirty miles of it, says the Indianapolis News. He comes from […]
Published in the Dixon Telegraph and Lee County Herald, Dixon, Illinois on Wednesday, October 22, 1851
Remarkable Dog Story. We find the following in the N. York Spirit of the Times. It is rather tough; Some years since, in the town of New Boston, New Hampshire, there was a family a, woman who was insane, a confirmed maniac. A partition was made by upright slabs secured in the floor of the […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 22, 1865
Extraordinary Effects of Whiskey upon a Dog. An unfortunate dog, while prowling around the market square lately, took it in his noddle to put out of sight one of those beef boluses, a few of which were carefully thrown around for the especial benefit of the canine fraternity-those without muzzles. The incautious individual had only […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, April 11, 1868
Lately, dogs have been disappeared in Antwerp, Belgium, in a mysterious manner. The disappearances grew so numerous that special efforts were made to elucidate the mystery, and the result was the apprehension of two persons, who confessed that during one year they stole no fewer than two-hundred dogs, the skins of which sold to toy […]
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Tuesday, December 17, 1850
Death by Hydrophobia. A most melancholy case of hydrophobia has just occurred in the family of Mrs. Law, a highly respected colored woman in this town. The facts as nearly as we can learn them, are substantially these; a few weeks ago the son of Mrs. Law, a very likely, intelligent young man of about […]
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, August 13, 1851
The Sandwich Islanders regard dogs as great delicacies. A letter from Honolulu, in noticing the preparations for the celebration of the king’s birthday, says-“Some unfortunate dogs are being scalded and scraped by my own residence; on enquiry it appeared that they were destined for the palace.”
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Monday, March 10, 1851
Mr. Pearson’s dog made his way overland from California, to his home in Burlington, Iowa, alone. His master came by steamer to New York.
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, October 24, 1851
A dog feast. This evening, in the Cheyenne’s camp, for the first time, I witnessed the interesting process of killing and preparing a dog for a feast. The victim was a large cur, quite fat. Two squaws lassoed him, and hung him up till he was dead. They then put him on a fire, and […]
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Monday, December 1, 1851
A few days ago a Newfoundland dog belonging to a gentleman of New Jersey, seized an infant which was sleeping upon the track of the Morris and Essex Railroad, on the approach of the locomotive, and carried it away of the danger.
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 30, 1874
A little dog belonging to a gentleman, residing near StonyBrook, Long Island, was in the habit of following his master’s wood wagon to the landing some three miles distant. One day he was set upon and roughly handled by a large dog belonging to a resident in the next village. The next day, though lame, […]