, Sangamo Journal on Monday, December 23, 2024
A freight train of the N. Y. and Erie railroad left Dunkirk the other day over three-hundred feet long and containing two-thousand seven-hundred and ninety-seven head of livestock, consisting of beeves, sheep and hogs, valued at $15,000. It was drawn by one locomotive.
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, November 21, 1850
We noticed a drove of between eight-hundred or a thousand fine hogs going to Beardstown, to-day, for Mr. Tinsley, who we learn had bought several thousand to drive to this point.
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Tuesday, December 17, 1850
Death by Hydrophobia. A most melancholy case of hydrophobia has just occurred in the family of Mrs. Law, a highly respected colored woman in this town. The facts as nearly as we can learn them, are substantially these; a few weeks ago the son of Mrs. Law, a very likely, intelligent young man of about […]
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Published in the Waukegan Daily Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, October 18, 1897
Vermont Not Ahead Yet.—This pig story from Vermont is behind the times as given by W. H. Dow. James Low comes to the front and says, “there is nothing new under the sun.” In the summer of 1845 he moved from Kenosha, Wisconsin to Millburn, Illinois. Among his effects was a young pig. About June […]
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Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 13, 1886
The Rockford Journal says: “It is estimated that at least 10,000 hogs have died with the cholera within a radius of fifteen miles about this city during the past season, and the disease is still prevalent. Some authorities on stock matters declare the plague to be measles instead of cholera.”
Wednesday, January 3, 2018
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, November 4, 1905
Washburn Springs the Scene of Most Repulsive Incident. Woman Said To Have Killed Sick Porkers, and Then Served Them to Her Boarders Who Summarily Took Flight. There have been many startling tales given to the public as originating in the foreign settlement-Washburn Springs- but the one which is perhaps the most repulsive and really unbelievable […]
Friday, December 22, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, December 7, 1853
On the night of the 3rd, near Whitehall, New York, a freight train ran over a cow, throwing the engine and several cars off the track. The engineer was killed, and two cars, loaded with hogs, were thrown into the canal.
Thursday, December 21, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, November 23, 1853
Another sore evil existing in this city, is the permitting of Hogs to run at large on our streets, to the very great annoyance of the inhabitants. These creatures, not being half fed by their owners, prowl about at all hazards, to pick up garbage often of the most loathsome kind, in order to satisfy […]
Saturday, December 9, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, December 16, 1853
This dog story is from Fayetteville, Arkansas, where a farmer’s dog has been detected in going to the hog-pen and biting one of the hogs till it gets up; when Archy lies down in the warm place and goes to sleep.
Saturday, December 9, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Monday, November 8, 1852
There is now on exhibition at Calais, Maine, a hog which stands seven feet eight inches high, and girths six feet eight inches, and weighs twelve hundred pounds. it is one year and six months old.