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Rival for the Skunk.

Thursday, September 13, 2012
Published in the Waukegan DailySun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, March 31, 1922

Muskrats force themselves occasionally upon one’s attention in India by their habit of entering a bungalow and ambling slowly round the rooms, talking loudly to themselves all the time in a chattering voice. Although ratlike, the muskrat is not really a rat, but a large shrew, protected by an extreme degree of offensive odor like […]

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Furs.

Friday, February 17, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 25, 1860

     The Sioux Indians, of Minnesota, have killed over 2,000 deer, 10,000 muskrat, and 3,000 otter, during the fall and winter.

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The Furs We Wear.

Thursday, February 16, 2012
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Sunday, December 23, 1877

Correspondence New York Post.      The Hudson’s Bay Company, during the season just past, have made their shrewd and abundant preparations for a successful winter’s trade, and the coming spring, no doubt, will show a corresponding result in a more than average catch.      The first in point of value is the pine marten, or […]

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Fish And Muskrats.

Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Published in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Thursday, June 9, 1870

Three hundred tons of fish have been taken from Spirit Lake, Iowa, this spring, and one man in the vicinity has bought 300,000 muskrats since January.

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Furs.

Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Published in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Thursday, June 23, 1870

A man lately arrived in Sioux City, Iowa, with 12,000 muskrat, 600 mink, 300 otter, and 500 wolf skins, purchased from the Indians in the vicinity.

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Picture How Woman Died In Muskrat Trap.

Friday, July 15, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, March 22, 1922

     Algonac, Mich., March 22.-Hours of torture, in which Mrs. Joseph Sears, 72 year old trapper, struggled against a muskrat trap which held her in two feet of mud and water were revealed with the finding of the woman’s body in the flats here. One of her own traps had snared her, and a boat, […]

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