Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 6, 1906
Augusta Canine Seemingly Unhappy When Without Them. There is a dog in Augusta, says the Augusta Chronicle, who dresses just like a man, wearing the regulation coat, vest, collar and cravat, and is very proud of his apparel, being seemingly very much distressed whenever his busy master does not have time to rig him up […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, January 8, 1915
Waukegan, Jan. 4. Anton Skermon, who conducts a barber shop on Spring street, just north of the Edmund Hotel, owes his life to his pet dog who awakened him early Sunday morning just in the nick of time to escape death in a fire which had broken out in his flat just over his place […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, November 12, 1909
Thirty chickens belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Enoch Trepanier of 1024 Jackson street were killed by a dog last night according to a police report and the canine is being hunted down.
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, August 24, 1911
Starved and Footsore Finds Way Back to Chicago From Indiana, Where It Was Lost For Two Months. Chicago, Aug. 24.-It’s a walk of 287 miles from Evansville, Ind., to Chicago and there aren’t any sign posts on the way that a dog can read, but this is the trip that John Cummings, janitor of the […]
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, October 16, 1911
Twenty-five hundred persons were bitten by dogs in New York city during the first eight months of the present year, according to the returns received by the department of health. Of those bitten 1,850 were males and 650 females. Children were the greatest sufferers-1,800 as against 700 adults. Twenty-five persons were bitten more than once. […]
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, December 18, 1911
Little Dog Braves Wounded Wild Beast and Saves Life of His Master. That victory is not always a matter of size or strength was pleasingly illustrated in the case of the dog that did his duty so effectually in the incident here related. A man named De Beer had started early one morning for a […]
Saturday, February 2, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, May 6, 1907
This is the time of year when dogs seem to become ferocious and many people have been thoroughly frightened and narrowly escaped being bitten by dogs jumping upon them unceremoniously. Yesterday O. D. Goss was bitten on the hand by a dog which he shot afterward. The wound is not serious, but had to be […]
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, December 8, 1909
Eskimo Dogs Seem to Have Laws of Their Own. In his voyage of polar exploration Commander Fiala observed among his dogs a sort of government quite independent of that of their keepers. They were of the Eskimo variety and were trained to work in teams. In their general conduct, however, they acted as a community, […]
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, March 16, 1909
You see it was this way. The dog saw the cat and chased it. The cat naturally ran. It sought refuge between a blacksmith shop and a private dwelling on Washington street and there it stuck. The dog pursued and it stuck between the walls also. A crowd gathered, clothes poles and broom sticks were […]
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, September 28, 1908
Chicago, Sept. 28.-Mrs. Elizabeth Bowles, 243 West Twelfth street, was attacked by a Newfoundland dog which bit her a least fifty times when she went to the aid of her three-year-old daughter, who had fallen down a flight of stairs. The dog thought it was defending its little companion. Mrs. Bowles’ condition is serious. The […]