Friday, December 16, 2011
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 been hatched out a couple weeks. For some cause the unnatural mother deserted her […]
Friday, December 16, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 22, 1877
    The Jefferson City [Mo.] Tribune: A gentleman of the name of Ewing, who lives in Vernon County, tells a remarkable story of the sagacity of a dog which accompanied him on his travels. While in the Short Creek timber, on his way to Joplin, the dog jumped and caught the horse by the bridle […]
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 29, 1877
Clever Dogs. Â Â Â Â Shot was a very intelligent and well behaved retriever, belonging to a gentleman at Doneaster. By kindness and patience he had been tought to do many clever tricks. On one occasion he earned a nice sum of money by performing at a bazaar for the benefit of the poor people in the […]
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, October 27, 1877
    Mile. D., a good and worthy lady, who lived in a country house in the neighborhood of Columbier, had a dog of special intelligence. He was of the race of poodles, which, everybody knows, is remarkably sagacious. When Mile. D., passed the evening with ladies of her acquaintance in Columbier as so often happened, […]
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Published in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Thursday, August 1, 1872
From the Detroit Free Press, July 29. Captain maddock, living on Rivard street, while Captain of the schooner D. L. Couch, four years ago, and then living at New Baltimore, took with him on a trip to Buffalo a Newfoundland dog named “Neptune.” Lying alongside another vessel one night at Buffalo his dog was stolen. […]
Friday, November 11, 2011
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Sunday, November 25, 1877
Hempstead Tex., Messenger. Some two weeks since a mad dog bit a great many hogs in the Loggins neighborhood, and since then these hogs have gone mad to the number of a dozen. One sow brought forth a litter of pigs, every one of which was mad at birth, and all of which died soon […]
Friday, November 11, 2011
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Tuesday, January 16, 1872
Galesburg had an interesting rat hunt on Friday evening, at Allen’s slaughter-house. There were 201 rats and three dogs, and the conflict lasted thirty minutes, when it ended for lack of victims.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Wednesday, July 28, 1909
    ‘Fox” Boyes, a small white fox terrier, made a rat killing record for himself at the Insull farm recently where the firm of Boves & Sanborn are building a new barn. The old barn on what was formerly known as the Davison farm was being torn down to be replaced by a new one […]
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Published in the lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, January 27, 1905
    Mrs. Benjamin J. Scholermann, wife of a New York jeweler, had a desperate fight with a setter dog at her residence in Greenwich, Conn. She was almost exhausted, when another dog, a pet bulldog came to her aid, and, jumping on the setter, turned his attention.
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, August 25, 1914
Rest is Broken Nights by Barking of Dogs at Night Who Are Hunting Rats. Must Exterminate One. Have About Decided That it Would be Most Satisfactory to Kill the Rodents. Â Â Â Â If all other means fail residents of Chestnut street may open a systematic campaign of extermination against the rodents who infest the ruins of […]