Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, July 15, 1912
Ring Around Rats Neck.—Bloomington, Illinois., July 15, 1912.Waukegan Daily Sun Wallace Fauber, a farmer of Woodford county, was pitching hay when a rat ran out of the stack. The animal was transfixed with the tines of the fork and killed. Fauber noted a peculiar shape to the head of the animal. Inspection revealed a ring […]
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Saturday, January 20, 2018
Published in the Chicago Press and Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, April 28, 1860
A poor Irish woman named Mary Conner, about thirty years of age, being about to become a mother, on Sunday last applied for admission to Bellevue Hospital. She was at once taken in, and placed in what is known as the “waiting room,” where there were already several patients. During the evening she was attended […]
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 […]
Saturday, December 9, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, November 11, 1852
How many of our fair readers, as they draw on their French kid gloves are aware that those same gloves are made of rat skins? The catching of rats for this purpose is a regular trade in Paris, in which hundreds of men find employment.
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, August 12, 1907
A rat three inches long paralyzed the electric lighting system of Stamford, Conn., and put the town in darkness for twenty-four hours. Climbing a guy wire fifty feet long, the rat reached a conduit carrying 10,000 volts of electricity. It placed its front feet on the charged wire and instantly diverted the current through its […]
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Thursday, April 22, 1728
I took my departure from Blackwood-Key, in the Bay of Honduras, in the sloop Dove, the 24th of December, 1728 last. The 3rd day of February I made land in the lat 39. and 40 Min. about 4 leagues to the Northward of Cape May: We had been then some time a short allowance, both […]
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Wednesday, March 17, 1728
A woman in Newport Market, being young with child, had a Rat thrown in her face by another woman. The pregnant woman instantly clapped her hand to her mouth, and upon her delivery since, the infant has the strong resemblance of a Rat about the mouth, and the under part of the face.
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Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Thursday, March 27, 1732
By a letter from Martha’s Vinyard of the 23rd of December, 1731, we have an Account, that a ship is arrived there, in 14 Weeks from Rotterdam where they took on board 150 People for Pennsylvania, and that above One Hundred of them died at sea through Hunger and Cold. That a Rat was sold […]
Saturday, January 17, 2015
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, October 5, 1908
“Are rats destructive? Well,” said a captain of a merchantman. “I once knew them to get through $5,000 worth of stuff in five days. “Japan does an immense trade with China in cocoons, and the first time I carried such a cargo they were packed in sacks. When we got to Hong Kong we found […]
Saturday, January 17, 2015
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 10, 1876
An Awful and Almost Incredible Story. The number of rats inhabiting the rocky crevices and cavernous passages at the summit of Pike’s pike-says a correspondent of yesterday’s Pueblo Chieftain-have recently become formidable and dangerous. These animals are known to feed on saccharine gum that percolates through the pores of the rocks apparently upheaved by some […]