Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 1, 1881
    Iowa hall can boast of a dog that out Tanners Tanner, having lived forty-two days without food or water. On the 16th day of September the animal owned by Mrs. Armstrong, of Bird’s Flat, disappeared from its home. They marveled much at his prolonged absence and, after futile inquiries and search, concluded that it […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, November 6, 1875
    Recently, near Titusville, Pa., a hound was found lying exhausted in a field, and beside the dog was a dead fox. It was afterward discovered that the hound had followed the fox for nearly forty miles, from the vicinity of Harstown, Crawford county.
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 24, 1866
    A horse came home without a driver, but instead of going directly to the stable, stopped at the house, neighed, and exhibited other indications of great disquietude. This, at first, excited no attention; but, as these manifestations continued, and his master did not appear, apprehesion was excited, and a person dispatched in search of […]
Friday, February 17, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 24, 1859
    Anecdotes of animals serving to show their intelligence or the extent of their reasoning powers, are always interesting. Here is a very curious one:     A large dog had been accustomed to get bits of money from his master to go to a meat stall to get his lunch of fresh meat. One day […]
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 Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicag, Illinois on Friday, May 23, 1879
    Lafayette [Ind.] Journal.     McDowall Cox, who lives about four miles from Lafayette, in Wabash Township, about two weeks ago lost a dog which he highly prized. The last that was seen of the animal was one day about that length of time ago, when he scared up some unknown creature and darted out […]
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 1, 1879
    A Dublin woman was arrested for simply setting a bull-dog upon her husband, aged eighty years, while he was sick in bed, the animal injuring the man so badly that he wa not expected to live. It seems that a woman can’t have any fun at all over in that down-trodden country. There is […]
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazete, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 8, 1879
    One of the best stories we have seen is contained in London Nature. A brave, active, intelligent terrier, belonging to a lady, one day discovered a monkey belonging to an itinerant organ-grinder, seated upon a bank within the grounds, and at once made a dash for him. The monkey, who was attired in jacket […]
Friday, December 30, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 1, 1877
A North Carolina wagoner sold his dog to a Laurens county man the other day for half a barrel of sorghum syrup. The dog however, refused to be sold and took refuge under the wagon. The Laurens county man crawled after him with a piece of meat in one hand and a rope in the […]
Friday, December 16, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 16, 1878
    In the New Jersey calender Tuesday was “sheep day,” so called because upon one day in each year the township committees are in session to receive complaints from farmers and sheep-owners. These complaints state the number and value of the sheep which have been killed by dogs during the year. These losses are paid […]