Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, January 2, 1908
Tuck is an Ordinary Looking Fox Terrier, but His Owner Declares He is the Smartest Canine in the United States. R. M. Smart, proprietor of a grain elevator at Xenia, O., claims to have in Tuck, an ordinary looking fox terrier, the smartest dog in the United States. The dog has never been taught a […]
Thursday, September 18, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, October 15, 1897
Whiskers, Well Known Among the Chicago Sailors, Is No More. There is gloom among the river men at Chicago. “Whiskers,” the steamboat dog familiar to every sailor who enters the harbor, is dead. Through an inadvertency he was shut up in the pilothouse of the tug Monitor Friday night and was suffocated. Whiskers was known […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, November 23, 1898
Dog Comes to the Rescue of Colorado Cow Herder in Nick of Time. A cow herder, Mike Sullivan, encountered a large gray wolf at Prospect lake, near Colorado Springs, Col., the other day while attending to his cattle. Armed only with a club, he pursued it a short distance, when it turned on him. He […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, August 23, 1910
Light-House Keeper Discovers Dog Watching Coat Last Night and Crowning Story Results. One of the light house keepers discovered a dog standing watch over a boys coat on the south pier last evening, and at first it was believed that there had been a drowning. The dog was taken to the police station and an […]
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 his wife, daughter and granddaughter.
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Friday, June 9, 1854
About nine weeks since, Mr. John T. Cookson, foreman in the foundry of Mr. Semple was attacked and bitten in several places by a dog, as he was returning to his home about nine o’clock in the evening. He felt no serious effects from these bites till last Sunday, night when he was unable to […]
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, March 18, 1854
A friend of ours owns a noble, great Newfoundland dog, about which he tells a great many funny stories, among which is the following: We tell it as it was told to us, premising only that our friend is a man of fair character for veracity, and we believe it ourself. He spent several weeks […]
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, February 18, 1854
A dog plunged into the Ohio, a few miles above Cairo, a short time since, after a deer, and caught it when about a hundred yards from the shore. The dog after getting on the deers back, and fastening to his ear, so interfered with its swimming, that a spectator on the bank took a […]
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Sunday, May 25, 1890
Incident of the Rabid Dog Epidemic in Fulton County. Canton, Ill., May 24. An exciting incident of the mad dog epidemic now alarming the people of Fulton County occurred near Breed’s station on the Toledo, Peoria and Western railway, yesterday afternoon. John Byno was driving to his home at Breed’s. When within a few miles […]
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Thursday, August 2, 1855
A large mastiff dog was carried over the Genesee Falls, at Rochester, on Friday. He emerged in safety, and was very soon seen wagging his tail on the flats in exultation. The height is 92 feet.