Wednesday, January 3, 2018
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, March 27, 1903
The rat is, as no one will doubt, a very fair climber. He can scamper about anywhere in the roof of a barn or can ascend the Ivy that grow on the house wall, and make the lives of the pigeons in their cotes anything but happy ones. The rabbit, on the other hand, is […]
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Daily News, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, November 10, 1919
An Australian correspondent describes “a dinkum stand-up fight” between buck hares. “They prop upright on their hind legs and box with their front paws, sparring, ducking, uppercutting in pugilistic fashion, fur flying in all directions. When one pugilist gets winded or passed out he falls on his back and skies his tail.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 26, 1880
English land-owners who cannot obtain a satisfactory rental for their farms are turning them into great rabbit warrens. About 10,000 rabbits, recently killed on an estate in Essex, brought thirty-seven cents each in the market.
Friday, February 17, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 11, 1858
    Various interesting facts have been noted in relation to the demeaner of animals pior to a great convulsion. It was towards noon, beneath a clear and almost cloudless sky, with the sea breeze freshly blowing, that the cities of Conseption and Talcahuano, on the coast of South America, were desolated in 1835. At ten […]
Friday, November 11, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, February 24, 1922
Careful observations have been made, in France, of the extent to which mosquitoes are attracted to domestic animals in preference to human beings. It was proved experimentally that mosquitoes have a strong predilection for the blood of rabbits, stronger than for that of any other domestic animal. The discovery has practically applied to many parts […]
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, December 14, 1922
Miner Tells Of Miraculous Escape From Death. As Instrument of Preserving Man From Dreadful End, Animal Was Honored by Community. Â Â Â Â This true story of the almost miraculous rescue of a man imprisoned in the shaft of a lead mine was told to the writer, Cora Cole McCullough, by a member of her family. We […]
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, June 6, 1912
    Planfield, Ill., June 6.-A batted ball that gave the batter a home run was found to have killed a rabbit during a game at Plainfield. An outfielder found the dead rabbit lying beside the ball.
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, November 6, 1903
Queer Cases of Attachments Formed in Large Zoological Gardens. Â Â Â Â Among the strange features of life in a large zoo are the unexpected and at times amusing friendships that spring up between animals of altogether dissimilar habits and natures, says London Tit-Bits. Out at the National zoo two rhesus monkeys have formed a warm friendship […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, January 16, 1906
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois, on 01/16/1906.     Although 53 years old Earl De Gray still ranks as the greatest game butcher in England, perhaps in the world. He has killed more game than any other living sportsman-amounting, when last computed-to 216,699 head. Comprised in this list were 11,900 pheasants, 89,400 partridges, 45,500 […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, January 16, 1906
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois, on 01/25/1906. Justice Van Deusen Places Heavy Fine on Two Evanston Men. This morning Edward Brown and James Palmer, two hunters from Evanston, were arraigned before Justice Van Deusen, charged with hunting rabbits with a ferret by deputy Sheriff Martin Lux. It cost each one $16.40. They paid.