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A Remarkable Mule.

Friday, October 7, 2011
Published in the Belvidere Standard, Belvidere, Illinois on Tuesday, June 2, 1863

     There is now in Wheeling a mule whose remarkable career is deserving of some notice. This mule was drafted into the army shortly after the rebellion exhibited to full view its gigantic head, and was afterwards transferred to the famous Jackass Battery. He was engaged in the battle of McDowell, Cross Keys, and followed […]

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Thursday, October 6, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 6, 1882

     A Montana mule standing near a magazine of giant powder when it exploded was hurled end overend seventy-five feet to the bottom of the dump pile on which he stood. When the smoke cleared away he stood quietly picking the bunch grass not in the least disturbed. He had lifted people like that himself […]

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Fatally Hurt By Mules.

Thursday, October 6, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, February 24, 1905

     William Bullar, 19 years old, son of C. C. Bullar, a prominent stone contractor and builder of Murphysboro, was perhaps fatally injured by a team of young mules. He had gone onto the stable to feed the animals, when he was struck down and viciously attacked. His skull was crushed and his body terribly […]

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Golf Ball Is Driven Into Ear Of Donkey.

Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, December 7, 1922

By International News Service      Cork, Ireland, Dec. 7-Izaak Walton has no modern champion, and so fish stories are giving way to golf stories.      J. W. McEvoy drove off the third tee at the middleton links and his ball entered the ear of a donkey on the course. The donkey stood still for a […]

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Lima Jack Asses

Thursday, September 1, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Friday, December 9, 1825

     Extract of a letter published in the Philadelphia Gazette, dated 25th July.      I write you from the City of Kings and the Garden of Eternal Summer; where rain is unknown; but vegetation enjoys uninterrupted health, cherished by nightly dews.      Lima is proverbially called, the Heaven of ladies-the purgatory of men-and the Hell […]

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All Meat for Paris Lane.

Saturday, July 10, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, January 16, 1906

     A street sign that amazes American visitors in Paris reads: “Butchery of Horse, Ass and Mule a Specialty.”

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War Cost 349,728 Horses.

Friday, April 23, 2010
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, February 13, 1903

Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 02/13/1903.      Sir Charles Mansfield Clarke, quartermaster of the British army, testified before the war inquiry commission that 349,728 horses and 53,339 mules and donkeys were lost in the South African war, enclusive of 15,960, which were lost on the voyage to South Africa.

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