Saturday, November 8, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, October 1, 1897
The rats that deserted the little schooner Mary E.Dykes, which waterlogged in the lake eight miles off Evanston Tuesday night, showed bad judgement. When the boat began filling with water, not withstanding the heroic efforts of the crew to save their boat from shipwreck, the rats came running up in droves on the deck, which […]
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 6, 1912
In One Instance the Foundations of a Modern House on the North Side Have Been Seriously Undermined by the Rodents-Up to Now Worst on North Side. It develops that Waukegan has been invaded by an army of large rats which promises to develop a most serious condition, especially on the North Side where the pests […]
Saturday, October 11, 2014
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, ILinois on Friday, December 26, 1902
The leading animal dealer of this city has for some time past been in the habit of feeding his boa constrictors, ball snakes, and black snakes on white rats, rabbits and guinea pigs, animals that multiply so rapidly that this is the only means he has of disposing of those he can not sell. As […]
Friday, September 19, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, January 20, 1913
It appears that a new use has been found for the skin of the common rat. In England, it is said, the bookbinders have taken to using these skins for covers of fine editions hitherto bound to high grade leathers. It is reported that a trade amounting to one-quarter million dollars a year has developed […]
Friday, September 19, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 11, 1913
The wonders of science will never cease. Paris has received a delicate jolt by the exhibition of a rat which carries around a pianola [piano] in its internal organism. A touch of its tail produces airs from the operas. M. Bertrand Lebaudy, the French zoological expert and savant, discovered that the ribs of the rat […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, September 1, 1910
Rodent Nibbles at Bacon on Bruised Foot and Sinks Teeth in Toe. Anderson, Ind., Sept. 1.-Arther, the 4-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Schofield, almost bled to death as a result of having been bitten on the toe by a rat. While playing about the yard the child stubbed his toe and the mother […]
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Monday, January 29, 1855
A most singular and fatal occurrence took place at the house of Mr. B. M. Morris on Eighth, between Main and Cary streets, about two weeks since. We learn from the Post that about six months ago, a negro woman, in the employment of Mr. Morris, heard her child cry in the next room to […]
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, March 29, 1854
A Jamaica paper says that rats on board the West India packets are sadly destructive of Foreign mails. Some time since a will in England was required in Demerara. After immense trouble and expense the will was obtained and sent out. When the mail arrived at Demerara, however, the rats had eaten the will and […]
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Tuesday, February 20, 1855
In a paragraph concerning the high tide of Thursday, the Boston Telegraph records the following: “At the wharves owing to the high water a large number of rats were killed by unemployed laborers. The vermin were obliged to leave their holes, or remain quiet and be drowned, and as they appeared, parties of Irishmen waiting […]
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Friday, November 16, 1855
From the Hartford Courant. We noticed the systematic attack made by rats in New Haven, on some children, each singling out his victim, and jumping with a simultaneous squeal upon the little girls playing in a yard. A little boy of two years was caught by the knee, and held until the child’s grandfather went […]