Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Tuesday, April 30, 1850
Rev. Walter Colton, in his agreeable and christian-like diary of a voyage to California in a man-of-war, entitled “Deck and Port,” [in which by the way, much is mildly and convincingly said against the spirit ration and flogging in the navy,] relates the following capital rat story. I have always felt some regard for a […]
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, August 6, 1851
We noticed a day or two since that a lady at Debuque, having some difficulty with her husband, took her two children and started on a steamboat for Saint Louis. On her way down she was drowned. Her husband followed. On his arrival at St. Louis, he got drunk and was found next morning in […]
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, March 5, 1852
They are killing rats at the rate of ten thousand a day in New York city, and selling them to Genin, to make of them sables, etc.
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Sunday, June 8, 1890
Roscoe Franklin of Brockton, Mass., owns a bay horse, known by the name of Shiloh, that is possessed of a peculiar accomplishment. Mr. Franklin’s stable, a rather old building, is infested by rats that give the horses much trouble, stealing their food and making themselves pests generally. It began to be observed a short time […]
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, October 6, 1832
A gentleman, who domesticates at present with us, was awakened a few nights since by the gambols of a rat upon his bed. He arose and supposing he had ejected his unwelcome visitor, closed the door of his chamber and again resigned himself to the arms of his sleepy god. Nothing more was heard of […]
Saturday, February 2, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, January 4, 1910
Therefore they Cannot be Entered in Show Next Week. One of the tragedies of Fowlland took place night before last when rats entered the Hutton-Totterdale coops, attacked two valuable blue magpies, killed them and ate their heads off. The magpies were registered and were to have been entered in the poultry show, hence the grief […]
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, August 18, 1832
A friend from West Hartford informs us that a drove of nearly two thousand rats, were seen early one morning last week, on their way from this city. They had been driven away, doubtless, by chloride of lime, the smell of which these long tailed individuals seem particularly to abominate. The gardens and roads about […]
Published in the Sangamo Journal-, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, December 14, 1833
A poor woman who lives in Water street, Philadelphia, was awakened in the course of the night by the faint cry of her infant; but supposing it to be merely the fretfulness of infancy, and wearied with the fatigues of the day, she fell asleep, but again awakened, when getting up and obtaining a light, […]
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 7, 1882
The London News gives this: A cat, all black, except its perfectly white tail, was presented to the town of Agnone, Italy, many years ago. They put it in the theater to clear it of rats. They soon found that the cat was fraternizing with the rodents, and had become their king, and shared its […]
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 30, 1865
A correspondent proposes a new way to kill rats. His own house being overrun with vermin, a servant girl who had seen the effects of “Old Bourbon Whiskey” on bipeds, thought she would try an experiment on the rats. Accordingly, she took a small quantity, made it very sweet with sugar, crumbled in bread enough […]