Sunday, September 5, 2010
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 4, 1905
Neighbor’s Favorite Fox Terrier Bites Its Accustomed Playmate. Â Â Â Â A dog leaped into the face of little Gerald Heyliger and snapped the end of his nose off when the child stooped to pet it in front of his home in Chicago. Gerald, who is 12 years old, with blood streaming from the end of his […]
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, April 2, 1881
    A Charlotte [N. C.] special of a recent date to the Chicago Inter Ocean says:     A very remarkable occurrence at Shoeheel, a small town between this city and Wilmington, has just stirred up the whole section of country contiguous thereto. Mr. William D. Baldwin, a highly respectable citizen, was returning, Saturday night, from […]
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, October 11, 1912
Louis Miller Taken To Chicago Wednesday Night-To Take Treatment. Â Â Â Â Gurnee, Ill., Oct. 3.-Louis Miller, of Lamb’s Corners, was rushed to Chicago Wednesday night to take treatment at the Pasteur Institute. Â Â Â Â Miller was badly bitten by a dog last Sunday. The dog was shot and his head was taken to Chicago for examination. The […]
Friday, September 3, 2010
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, July 20, 1906
    Minneapolis, July 18.-What to do in case a mad dog bursts into a room, was the unexpected problem the solution of which Dean J. F. Fowney demonstrated to his class in pedagogy at the state university summer school. He was engaged in pointing the pedagogical path to an interesting group of propective schoolmaams, when […]
Friday, September 3, 2010
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, January 17, 1902
Family In West Virginia Has Fierce Fight. Man and Wife Save Chidren and Finally Kill Rabid Animals. Â Â Â Â Attacked in their home by five mad dogs, Elmer S. Good and family, who live in Chester, W. Va., opposite East Liverpool, Ohio, came off victorious in a fight for their lives the other morning. The family […]
Friday, September 3, 2010
Published in the Belvidere Standard, Belvidere, Illinois on Tuesday, June 10, 1862
    I have found, says a correspondent, the following receipt most effectual in killing fleas in dogs, viz. to rub them well over with whisky-it acts like magic, killing them instantly;  if all are not polished off in one application, another will be necessary.
Friday, September 3, 2010
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, May 10, 1912
     Mount Vernon, Ill. May 8-A birddog belonging to Ashibel Free attacked a beehive in a playful mood. The bees stung the dog to death.
Friday, September 3, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, November 28, 1910
    A few days ago a valuable setter dog belonging to George Hallowell, in yawning, got its jaws set and despite all efforts to close its mouth the animal could do nothing. Mr. Hallowell tried in vain to alleviate the trouble and as a last resort took the beast to McKillop’s veterinary college, Chicago.     […]
Friday, September 3, 2010
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Saturday, February 8, 1896
    Louis Lezotte was shot by his own dog while squirral hunting in the woods near Rehobeth, Mass. He had a double-barreled gun with him, and sighting a squirrel high up in an oak, Lezotte let go one barrel, badly wounding the squirrel. Standing the gun against the tree Lezotte began to climb to secure […]
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 […]