Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 29, 1880
    During the year 1879, 10,281 horses, 529 asses and 26 mules, giving 4,135,700 pounds of meat, were sold for consumption in Paris; and on the 1st of January last seventy-eight butchers shops for the sale of that article of food were in full operation.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 14, 1885
[Exchange.] Â Â Â Â The Greeks and Romans did not know stirrups. The ancients had no saddles like ours, although a Monsieur Ginzrot tries to make out from Julius Caesar and other Roman writers, that they did sometimes employ a kind of frame like a saddle-tree, which was stuffed with wool or cloth, and then covered over […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, April 5, 1907
Mail Carrier Seriously Injured by Terriffied Team-Horses upset Mail Wagon and break Carrier’s Ribs and Collar Bone. Â Â Â Â Lake Villa was the scene of a thrilling runaway last week and as a result Earnest Shepardson, the rural mail carrier for that village is in a critical condition at his home, with three ribs broken and […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily News, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, October 5, 1906
    While Abe Diamond was driving across the Chicago & Northwestern tracks at Madison street, east side, this morning, his horse became frightened at a passing engine and turned completely around in the harness, unhitching himself with the exception of one tug.     The junk dealer now claims the possession of the champion trick horse […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 16, 1886
    Reading, Pa., Jan. 14.-While Cyrus P. Miller, a leading lawyer of Lebanon, was riding in a sleigh through the streets of that city Tuesday, the horse drew up in front of a bank at which Mr. Miller was accustomed to stop. It was then discovered that he was dead, though the corpse sat upright […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 14, 1880
    Dr. Pratt, of Albany, has a horse with an inordinate appetite for confectionery. Every morning he is driven to the banking house of Henry R. Pierson, and after disposing of his master he turns his eyes northward to see if his road is clear. If he finds no obstacle in the way he walks […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, November 6, 1875
    A hairless horse, standing fifteen hands high, and weighing 1,000 pounds, is the latest natural curiosity in this country. The quadruped, which presents the appearance of an India rubber animal, answers to the name of “Caoutchoue.”
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, November 6, 1875
    Rubber horse-shoes are the latest novelty. Their cost, as compared with those of iron, is about one-third more, and their weight forty per cent less. It is said that horses suffering from cracked or contracted hoofs, are soon cured by their use.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 28, 1875
    War horses when hit in battle, tremble in every muscle, and groan deeply, while their eyes show deep astonishment. During the battle of Waterloo, some of the horses, as they lay upon the ground, having recovered from the first agony of their wounds, fell to eating the grass about them, thus surrounding themselves with […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 21, 1875
    There are few of the patrons of Porter & Merrill’s livery stable, in this city, but have, at some time during the past half-dozen years, had the pleasure of driving a chestnut horse, known as “Gold-dust.” This horse as been in the stable almost from his colt-hood, and has always been a favorite with […]