Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, July 30, 1897
    A gentleman who makes his home in the Hotel Berkeley is the possessor of a fine St. Bernard which deserves a gold medal. The dog has developed a strong penchant for stopping runaway horses, and the last time the stop was accomplished just in time to save a party of ladies from serious injury, […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, September 20, 1907
 Carries Ten Buckets of Beer to His Bowwow Friends.     Here’s a nature fakir story that probably will draw the fire of Professor Long and President Roosevelt.     “The degeneracy of Fido, or what bad company will do even for a dog,” would be an appropriate title. Raymond Rodgers of Cairo, Ill., has a […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, November 11, 1904
 After One Treatment Animal Needs No Directions When Afflicted.     Edward Fink, for many years a resident of Freeport, vouches for a remarkable dog story. He took the suffering beast to a veterinary surgeon, who prescibed some medicine and was able to save the life of the pet. A few days ago Mr. Fink […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, March 4, 1898
    At Rock Island a tramp attacked Tillie Clark, 17 years old, in her yard as she was returning from school and demanded money. On her refusal he seized her and threatened to kill her, when a St. Bernard dog owned by the family sprang up on him and tore most of the clothes from […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, May 7, 1897
    A man who claims to know something about dogs advises anyone wishing to pick out a good puppy from a litter to let the mother choose for him. He says that in moving her pups the mother dog always picks up the best one last.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, February 19, 1897
 Newfoundland in St. Louis Accumulates a Stock of Twenty.     A dog which steals door mats for its own use as a mattresses, because it objects to sleeping on the cold ground, is the latest St. Louis development in the line of unusual animal intelligence.     The dog is named Grover, after the President […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, January 31, 1918
    Two small pet dogs saved the life of their thirteen-year-old master, Bruno Westerman of St. Paul, when Teddy, a pet black bear, attacked the boy.     As the bear seized the boy the dogs gave battle and Teddy dropped the child and sought refuge in a near-by tree.     Carl, the sixteen-year-old brother, finally […]
Published in the Waukegan gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 25, 1874
    About noon yesterday a freight clerk at the Central depot thought he would like to have a good wash and a nice swim, and he proceeded down the yards to a slip, looked all around to see if a policeman was in sight, and then shed his linen and made a dive. He left […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, August 30, 1922
Mountaineer’s Wife, By Trick, Escapes Man Who Killed Her Husband In Hills. Â Â Â Â San Diego, Cal., Aug. 29.-A faithful dog lying outside the door of a lonely mountain cabin, is credited with saving the life of Mrs. Florence Kester and bringing about the arrest of a man, accused of slaying her husband. Â Â Â Â A snarl […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 26, 1922
    Ever since the days when old Homer wrote of the home-coming of Ulysses when his faithful old hound alone recognized him in his disguise as a beggar, there have been some of the finest bits of literature devoted to noble characteristics of dogs. Liewellyn’s faithful hound, Bill Sykes’ loyal mongrel; Bayard, Baldy of Nome, […]