Friday, September 21, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 4, 1878
In the steppes of Russia it is not rare to see a two-year-old colt rush singly to attack a band of four or five wolves, kill one of them, lame the rest, and spread the terror of his name throughout the country. The wild horse strikes with his fore feet, like the stag, and not […]
Friday, September 21, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 12, 1878
1. Let your colt be domesticated and live with you from his tenderest age, and when a horse he will be simple, docile, faithful, and inured to hardship and fatigue. 2. Do not beat your horses, nor speak to them in a loud tone of voice; do not get angry with him, but kindly reprove […]
Monday, September 17, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 10, 1886
Cairo, Ill., July 5.-Ballard county, Kentucky, is in a wild state of excitement over a singular and fatal malady which has taken possession of her cows. They first go wild and frantic, fighting and making war upon everything in sight, with tongues lolling out and eyes bulging and bloodshot, finally dying in twenty to thirty […]
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 28, 1877
Three weeks ago a gentleman of this city purchased a fine, high-bred mare in Boston, and, as she was being led to the depot in that city, she became frightened and started at full speed, coming in contact with a horse car and next with a doctor’s chaise, and fell with great violence upon the […]
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 10, 1877
Van Amburgh could handle his lions and tigers with impunity. No animal will fail to respond to kindness and uniform good treatment. And especially will the noble horse respect and faithfully serve a master who deals gently and kindly with him. We have ourselves taken a spirited Morgan mare which had been rudely handled and […]
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan,Illinois on Saturday, March 18, 1876
A writer who was among the horses in our late war time, says the army horses, generally speaking, were a knowing set, although many of them were perverse and vicious. The boys had a theory that all the kicking, biting and balky horses were sent to the army. But a majority of these soon yielded […]
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 20, 1877
There are several large horse residences in New York. They each have beds for hundreds of horses, and the dining tables are a hundred times larger than those of the ‘fifth Avenue” and “Windsor” put together. The Horse Hotel, the largest one of all, is on Third Avenue, between Sixty-fifth and Sixty-ninth streets. It is […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 4, 1877
At Volo, the other day,we saw Mr. Carpenter, the village blacksmith, fitting wooden shoes to a pair of horses to enable them to work upon swampy land. Each shoe consists of a block of wood about 8 inches square, the calks fitting into the wood and a bail passing over the foot and fastening it […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 1, 1879
    Capt. Kennedy, a resident of Nucees county, Texas, owns a tract of land containing 350 square miles, on which are pastured 45,000 cattle, 15,000 horses and mules, and 7,000 hogs.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, April 29, 1880
    A Race-Horse ran against a post at the Upper Sandusky [O.] track the other day, tearing a hole in his side from which his entrails protruded. He ran fifty rods in this condition, and was finally overtaken and shot.