Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 16, 1879
    A gentleman at the hotel in Naugatuck, Conn., had a small dog. Its master had but to speak, and whatever evolutions he suggested the creature would go through. Following a series of tricks and antics, the gentleman says, “Its prayer time, say your prayers.” The little brute sprang into a large office chair, put […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 13, 1878
    “The old watch dog “Fidelity” of the Fidelity Safe Depository, died of old age on Saturday night. His death deserves more than a passing notice. On the night of the great fire, October 9, 1871, “Old Fidelity was at his post in the Fidelity Safe Depository, and when the hurricane of fire swept over […]
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 bin hatched out a couple of weeks. For some cause the unnatural mother deserted […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 13, 1882
    A gentleman in Paris owns a handsome and valuable dog named “Bismarck.” He recently received a note from the German Embassy inviting him to remove the name from the dog’s collar and the cease calling the animal by it under pain of prosecution, upon the ground that the patronymic belongs exclusively to the German […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, April 13, 1908
    Elgin, Ill., April 13.-Waiting for his master, F. Ernest Millitzer, who is believed to have drowned in Fox river a faithful fox terrier refused to desert his position at the foot of a tree on the river bank until carried away by searchers. The dog’s persistence in remaining in one place is the only […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, April 21, 1919
    A Gardiner [Me.] dog was caught on the trestle over the new Maine Central viaduct and could not reach the end ahead of the fast-coming train. Being afaid to jump off because of the distance to the ground, the dog dropped his body over one of the sleepers, letting his head and legs hang […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 5, 1904
 Little Boy Has Exciting Encounter With Vicious Animal.       Perry Maxfield of Bloomfield, N. J., brother of Theodore Todd Maxfield, a well-known horseman, and nephew of Thomas Oakes, millionaire cloth manufacturer of Bloomfield, had an exciting encounter with a wild cat at Nashua, Fla. Maxfield was severely clawed by the animal, and his hunting […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, July 8, 1910
    One of the strangest incidents of yesterday was the celebration of the Fourth by a bull dog which early in the morning grabbed a fire cracker, lit, in his mouth and “went wild” as it exploded. After that there was no keeping him away from the crackers and as fast as some one fired […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, January 5, 1912
    Averring that thirty-five pet cats and two dogs had superseded him in his wife’s affections, and ranked higher than he in the household, Samuel W. Odell, of Bethel, Kan., a civil war veteran, 74 years old, has sued Sarah L. Odell for divorce. His experiences in Andersonville prison during the Civil war were pleasant, […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, January 12, 1906
One-Fowl for Which He Has Special Affinity, and the Two Work in Unison. Â Â Â Â Owensboro, Ky.-Dogs have been trained to do marvelous things in various ways, but the most remarkable trick ever done by a dog is on its own initiative, without any sort of training. And he is a Daviess county dog, the property […]