Thursday, September 29, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Wednesday, July 28, 1909
    ‘Fox” Boyes, a small white fox terrier, made a rat killing record for himself at the Insull farm recently where the firm of Boves & Sanborn are building a new barn. The old barn on what was formerly known as the Davison farm was being torn down to be replaced by a new one […]
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, August 25, 1914
Rest is Broken Nights by Barking of Dogs at Night Who Are Hunting Rats. Must Exterminate One. Have About Decided That it Would be Most Satisfactory to Kill the Rodents. Â Â Â Â If all other means fail residents of Chestnut street may open a systematic campaign of extermination against the rodents who infest the ruins of […]
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 13, 1910
Victim of Thugs Thrown into River-Battles Rodents Three Hours. Â Â Â Â New York, Aug. 13.-Robbed of $400 and his watch by a gang of thugs, John Maughan, an elderly and well-to-do resident of Harlem, was beaten and thrown bodily into the North river by his assailants. Â Â Â Â He clung for three hours to the cross-beams under […]
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 28, 1901
Rat Catchers That Are Paid by the Government.     Several years ago a letter containing a large sum of money disappeared, from the New York post office, writes Hugh Netherton, in Ladies Home Journal, in telling of “Cats That Draw Salaries.” A month after the disappearance a desk in one of the rooms was moved, […]
Friday, September 16, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, September 3, 1919
Costs $180,000,000 to Support Rats in Country Each Year, Statistics Show. Start National Campaign. Â Â Â Â There is a rat for every person in the United States. Â Â Â Â If every man, women and child was to make his and her financial prorata contribution to what these hundred million or more rats exceed for upkeep annually. On […]
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, September 25, 1916
Fear an Invasion by Rats When Mammoth Pile of Junk is Moved From Street. Thousands Of Rats There. Have Taken Refuge in Enormous Pile of Junk That is Stored by Janowitz. Â Â Â Â Residents of Ash street are thinking seriously of inserting an advertisement reading somewhat as follows: Â Â Â Â Wanted-A Pied Piper who will guarantee to […]
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Saturday, February 2, 1828
    Among the various poisons and other means of destroying these obnoxious animals, I have always found the following to be most effective, but simple and harmless, plan of ridding my premises of these vermin:-Take a few fresh corks; grind them down into small particles; fry them, in the common way, with a little butter […]
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Thursday, December 15, 1825
    Two rats, upon their travels, fortunately fell in with an egg, sufficient to provide them both with dinner, which they were about to devour, when a fox made his appearance, a most unwelcome guest. The difficulty now was, to get the egg home, which they accomplished in this way. One of them lay on […]
Published in the Kaskaskia Western Intelligence, Kaskaskia, Illinois on Wednesday, November 18, 1818
The natives frequently amuse themselves by a curious kind of warfare, which is created by shutting up a scorpion and a rat together in a close cage, when a terrible contest ensues. Â This has been seen to continue sometimes for above an hour: it generally ends in by the death of the scorpion; but in […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, April 17, 1875
    Mr. Jessie Laverty, of East Pennaboro, living near Booser’s Mill, was lately very much annoyed by rats, which carried off his eggs, ate the corn in his crib, and then invaded his grainary and commenced destroying a bin of wheat. Mr. Laverty, on examination, found but one place where the rats got in. He […]