Saturday, October 20, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, May 6, 1837
A Pig Indeed!-At Cincinnati a hog was lately exhibited, weighing, [as it is said] 1500 pounds.
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 21, 1878
A Florida farmer fainted in his barnyard, and the hogs ate off the calves of his legs.
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, November 29, 1879
St. Petersburg, Russia. Oct. 7, about 7 a. m., the peasants from the adjoining villages had collected together at a fair which was held at the settlement of Darvenkoff, District of Izume, and the male portion of the assembly had dispersed to the drinking shops to make bargains and drink each others’ healths, leaving the […]
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, April 10, 1886
Ray Kahler, a 7-year-old son of Myron Kahler, a Rockville farmer was assaulted by a sow one day last week and seriously injured. The little fellow was running across a lot in which the animal with her brood of young pigs was kept, when the sow attacked him in a number of places. He succeeded […]
Monday, September 24, 2012
Published in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago,Illinois on Saturday, May 14, 1870
Three Thousand Broiled Hogs. From the Cincinnati Enquirer, May 12. The fire that broke out yesterday morning in the hog-pens attached to the distillery of J. W. Gaff & Co. proves to be quite as serious as announced in the brief account in yesterday morning’s Enquirer. The pens in question were situated on the western […]
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 13, 1886
Nearly two thousand persons assembled at Rhinebeck, N. Y., to witness the killing of a famous fat hog and bet on his weight. When dressed, he scored 888 and one-half pounds.
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, September 28, 1878
    A Georgia farmer smeared his hogs with tar to rid them of fleas, and turned them loose in the woods. At night they did not return to the pen as usual, and in the morning he found them stuck together, the tar making them adhere in a mass. They might have gone home, nevertheless, […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 19, 1898
    Last Friday a fat porker about to be slaughtered in Salem township, created more commotion that is often found in comic opera. Mr. and Mrs. F. McKnight were at Calvin Edmundson’s and the family attempted to kill a 350 pound hog. It was shot two or three times without avail, when the hog took […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 28, 1907
    W. F. James, an Arkansas sawmillman and planter, relates a turtle story which he says occured near his home recently. Jim Gullick heard a pig squealing and upon investigation found that a large turtle had come up out of the water, had seized a pig and was dragging its victim back to the water […]