Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 14, 1912
    Mount Carmel, Ill., Sept. 13.-Solomon Hinderliter and his twelve-year-old son are in critical condition as the result of an attack made upon them by a hog.
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, November 9, 1900
William Pherson Kills Milton Knapp and Hogs Devour His Body. Â Â Â Â A bitter feud which has existed for years between two aged men, Milton Knapp and William Pherson, brothers-in-law, owning large tracts of land near Franklin, Ind., was ended by the killing of Knapp by Pherson. When the body of Knapp was discovered by a […]
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 28, 1874
    A startling report comes from the region known as the Kaskaskia Bottoms, in this state, to the effect that during the past nine months from 10,000 to 15,000 hogs have died of trichina in that neighborhood. At first it was believed to be hog cholera but recent examinations leave no room to question the […]
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, June 10, 1918
    It is an undisputed fact that in Morocco pigs climb trees in search of nuts, says the Los Angeles Times. Not only pigs but goats. The puzzle is not in the pigs and goats, however, for they are the common variety that we see here. It is the tree that is strange. It is […]
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, September 26, 1917
    Fort Sheridan, Sept. 24-A threatened invasion of Fort Sheridan by an army of pigs today reached the ears of the wealthy residents of the North Shore and caused much agitation. The pigs may be sent under the Hoover plan to absorb the garbage. The amount thrown away each day would feed a regiment of […]
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Monday, April 6, 1874
    From the Covington Advertiser.     On Saturday about 150 persons, with dogs, guns, etc. met in the public square of Union, organized under the leadership of Mr. Clarkson, and proceeded to the farm of J. D. Smith, on Gunpowder, which a vicious wild boar had visited the night previous. Here Medoc, a noted dog […]
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, January 16, 1918
Suggestion They Would Be Mistaken for Chinese Heads in Water Won Prize as Best Idea. Â Â Â Â During the war between China and Japan in 1894 Viceroy Liu kun-yi issued a proclamation offering a reward to any one who could suggest a plan for destroying the enemy fleet. The prize was won by an old literary […]
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, July 18, 1922
Pig-sticking Not the Form of Amusement That Would Appeal to the Mollycoddle. Â Â Â Â One of the most thrilling of all sports is pig-sticking. Armed with a steel-pointed bamboo spear some seven or eight feet long, and mounted on a fast, well-trained horse, the pig-sticker waits outside a patch of covert until the beaters’ cries announce […]
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Sunday, July 13, 1873
Why Venomous Reptiles Do Not Flourish Here.-The Reason India is Infested With Snakes-Reptiles Driving an Army Back-The American Pioneers Best Friend-A Fight Between a Sow and Rattlesnake. The Editor of the New York Sun: Â Â Â Â Sir: An editorial published in the Sun on the subject of the terrible mortality from snake bites in India, disclosed […]
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Monday, July 28, 1879
North Branch Street And Vicinity Given Over To Them. Â Â Â Â “If you want to see the dirtest spot in Chicago,” said Mr. William Coakley, of No. 306 North Branch street, to a reporter of the Tribune yesterday, “you ought to go over to Goose Island. It is -that is, about where I live-the filthiest hole […]