Friday, December 16, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 2, 1878
    A lively young boar was recently sent my rail from Custrin to Frankfort-on-the-Oder, being shut up in a wooden cage. On the journey he managed to get out of the cage, and forthwith devoured twenty-five pounds of German yeast which happened to be in the car. The yeast began to rise in the interier […]
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Published in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Wednesday, August 3, 1870
From the Columbus {Ohio] News. A farmer was living on the west side of the river, in walking about his place, discovered a nest of rattlesnakes in an old log about which several large pieces of rock lay scattered. Our friend had heard that hogs were death on snakes of all sorts, and not caring […]
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Sunday, November 2, 1873
The last number of the Popular Science Monthly contains an article on the survival of instincts, which details some cruel and apparently abnormal habits among domestic animals, and traces them to early developments of necessity. By repetition they have acquired the force of instinct. For instance, a gentleman living near Brooklyn recently tethered a turkey […]
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, November 16, 1872
Another and terrible warning to the truant comes from Georgetown, Kentucky. A little boy, in returning from school, stopped to play with the little pigs in a pasture through which he passed, and as the old hogs did not allow her offspring to play with truant boys, they set upon him and ate him up, […]
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, May 16, 1901
How Chance Agencies Convey Stray Brutes From One Locality to Another. The manner in which animals may be conveyed from one area or region to another by what may be called chance agencies, has always formed a subject of much interest in the eyes of naturalists. The same opinions may be expressed of the dispersal […]
Friday, November 11, 2011
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Sunday, November 25, 1877
Hempstead Tex., Messenger. Some two weeks since a mad dog bit a great many hogs in the Loggins neighborhood, and since then these hogs have gone mad to the number of a dozen. One sow brought forth a litter of pigs, every one of which was mad at birth, and all of which died soon […]
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Thursday, August 14, 1879
J. M. Henderson, of Arkadelphia, has a horse that saves him the trouble of keeping a dog, as he is as good as one in running hogs and cows out of the field. One day he was put in the yard back of our office, where a pig happened to get in, when he saw […]
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 6, 1857
    This is a very dirty world in spots. Some of the hogs dead of cholera at the West have been sent as pork to the East, and dead horses in Philadelphia are used to fatten hogs for market. Pah! feed a man this pork, washed down with strichnined whisky, and he must soon become […]
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 31, 1880
    One of the most sickening affairs, if, indeed, it is not the most horrible, which it has ever been our duty to chronicle, happened last Saturday on the premises of Mr. Solon Kelly, about eight miles from Huntsville. There was a hog-killing in progress, and two colored men, Robert and Dennis Patrick, got into […]
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, June 10, 1912
Lives Under Ruins of Alabama Church for More Than 100 Days. Â Â Â Â Mobile, Ala., June 10.-Pinned under the ruins of a church near Evergreen, Ala., which had blown down on Feb. 21, a hog was found alive and, while weakened from the long imprisonment, was able to eat and drink. Â Â Â Â The animal was over […]