Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, September 6, 1848
If this too much abused and derided hybrid could speak, as did one of his far back ancestors, we should claim from them a vote of thanks, for what we have said, and caused to be said, in favor of their claim to kind consideration and treatment. Many years ago, at our suggestion, for he […]
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 23, 1919
In nearly every army race meeting held in France during the war there was provision for a mule race. Some mules, a London Times correspondent says, were remarkably fast and handy, while others were satisfactory so long as it was a straight course. At one meeting of the Picquigny course the distance was four furlongs, […]
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 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.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Sunday, January 26, 1890
An Experiment That Proved Entirely Too Successful. Â Â Florida Letter; When Capt. Royce, late of Ohio, made his home in Florida he found a fine alligator perserve in one corner of his plantation, and realized almost as much from the sale of hides as from his oranges. In crossing a small bayou one day he […]
Friday, December 30, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 1, 1877
A North Carolina wagoner sold his dog to a Laurens county man the other day for half a barrel of sorghum syrup. The dog however, refused to be sold and took refuge under the wagon. The Laurens county man crawled after him with a piece of meat in one hand and a rope in the […]
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 22, 1877
    One day last week a deer was chased from the mountain into Jackson’s river, closely followed by a pack of hounds. The deer crossed the river and jumped into a field near by, belonging to A. T. Stephenson, Esq. A small. mischievous mule was grazing in the field, and, as soon as he spied […]
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, October 6, 1877
    Probably one of the greatest problems of the age is the mule. Although volumes have been written on the mule yet the accident statistics show that he is as little understood as ever. How to mix kindness and firmness in the proper proportions and then apply the concoction successfully to an energetic mule is […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Sunday, September 30, 1900
There are in the whole world about 75,000,000 horses and 11,00,000 mules and asses. They are distributed as follows: Europe, 39,400,000 horses, 3,200,000 mules, etc; America, 20,800,000 horses, 4,700,000 mules, etc.; Asia, 9,100,000 horses, 1,300,000 mules, etc.; Africa, 1,000,000 horses, 1,900,000 mules, Etc.; Australia, 9,300,000 horses. In the United States there were, January 1, 1900, […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 5, 1910
Jenness Tried to Scare Animal but is Kicked from Machine. Â Â Â Â Logansport, Ind., Aug. 3.-Clyde Jenness took his sweetheart for a ride on his tandem motor cycle and seeing a mule standing in the roadway, he let on the gasoline and opened wide the exhaust. Â Â Â Â “Watch him run,” he said, but when the mule […]