Saturday, January 29, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 31, 1900
    At Wahoo, Neb., a shepherd dog guarded and protected the baby of Fred Baltz Jr., nineteen hours during a violent storm. The child, three years old, wandered away and after the storm was found sitting under the shelter of a creek bank, wet and muddy, but uninjured.
Friday, September 17, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, April 8, 1898
The is a certain cat of clerical associations and impeccable social standing who swims like a fish, and what is more, appears to enjoy it like any duckling. A Pug dog in the family seems to think the performance unnatural, and whenever the cat goes down to take his bath the pug follows, showing every […]
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, February 15, 1918
    The cases in which cats and dogs have formed close friendly relations are, of course, too numerous to mention. It really seems as if there were no animal friendship so strong and lasting as that between cats and dogs when once it is formed. It is well known that mother cats when deprived of […]
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 2, 1875
    In Paris, a bull dog, supposed to be mad jumped upon a horse which a gentleman was riding, but lost his hold, and the horse started at a desperate gallop, with the dog behind him. At first the gentleman tried to stop the horse, but subsequently urged him forward, judging apparantly, that is was […]
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 28, 1874
    A rabid dog bit twenty persons and some forty canines in Chicago last Friday afternoon. Mayor Colvin has issued a proclamatiom ordering dogs muzzled for sixty days from date.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 27, 1878
    A singular practice of fishing is found amongst the Chones Indians. They train dogs to aid them in fishing and the dog helps them in much the same way as the shepherd’s dog helps the shepherd.     The net is held by two men standing in the water, and the dogs, swimming out far […]
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 30, 1881
    A singular encounter between a dog and a donkey occurred recently in Blackpool, England. The dog rushed at the donkey as he was standing in a field, and fastened on his nose. The donkey shook him off, bit him about the head and shoulders, and tossed him wildly about. The dog again seized the […]
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, August 6, 1906
    Reports from Labrador state that five persons were killed and eaten by savage dogs of that coast during the last winter. These dogs, which have largely interbred with wolves, have frequently killed people heretofore. One of the victims last winter was a man, aged thirty-five, and the others were an elderly man and his […]
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, October 5, 1911
Zion City People Loose Geese, Calves, Dogs, and a Horse Result of Errant Rabid Canine. Bart Tyrrell Shoots Dog. Â Â Â Â Either a case of more mad dogs or of the same errant one that caused the loss through rabies of cattle at Gurnee, Wadsworth, Russell, Yorkhouse and Zion City, people has suffered a mad dog […]
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, April 29, 1910
    With the loud crack of the whip and a yelping of Siberian wolf hounds attached to what looked like an automobile, George F. Small, “Shorty for short,” a native of Ontario, Canada, and H. T. Boone, colored dog master and a native of Whalen, Siberia, drove into Waukegan before daylight Friday morning in the […]