Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, February 5, 1897
     A story is told of a recently deceased rat who obtained oil from a narrownecked bottle by dipping his tail therein. Then he licked the oil from his long and well-oiled tail and waxed fat. The truth of the story is certified by reputable men, and is contained in “Stories of Animal Sagacity,” a […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 7, 1863
    On going into my own cow-shed a short time since to see a cow that had a young calf. I found her quietly chewing her cud, and to my astonishment, I observed a large rat lying at full lenth between her hind legs, sucking vigorously at one of her teats. My first impression was […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 29, 1857
    If you are pestered with rats, try the method suggested by the Boston Cultivator: “Take a barrel with one head, put in sufficient water to drown the rats. Fasten over the top some thin, elastic covering a drumhead, or sheepskin with the wool off will do; put in meat or some kind of bait […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, July 2, 1897
    Woodford County is the scene of a rat pest. Farmers have been holding their corn cribs for a long time and the rats have been growing strong and healthy on a straight corn diet. They have bred with frightful rapidity, and now that the corn is being hauled away they look for new sources […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 7, 1896
    By the time Stephen Perletice, of Chicago, gets through with the Illinois Humane Society, the police and two or three insurance companies he will know enough not to set fire to any more rats. Some of the retribution that is coming to him has reached him already, for the poor beasts which he tortured […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Sunday, June 26, 1870
    The following incredible “rat story” is vouched for by one of the well known brick masons of this city, who with several of his family, watched the performance, which illustrates an animal genuity and cunning almost equaling human reason.     A basket of eggs was placed on the floor, and two rats adopted the […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 15, 1876
    An amusing experiment on rats was recently perpetrated in a mercantile house in Petersburg, Vt. Two of these animals had been trapped, and it was decided to try the effect of whisky upon them. Forty drops were administered to each of them by force, and the result awaited. They were placed in a wide […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, August 20, 1913
Rodents Which Have Made Their Home Under Bridge, Driven From Refuge. Some Portions Overrun. Small Army Of Pests Seen To Make Their Way Up Genesee St. A Few Days Ago.     Waukegan has been invaded!     Thousands of invaders have made their appearance and are overrunning the entire city. There is a possibility that battery C […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, April 6, 1922
    It has been estimated that the economic loss from rats in the United States is $200,000,000 a year. In other estimates before the war, the annual damage in the United Kingdom was $70,000,000. As a carrier of bubonic plague and other diseases, the rat is charged with the loss of more human lives than […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, April 12, 1873
    Mr. C. Clark, of O’Plain, gives us the following rat story, for the truth of which he vouches. A few nights since he placed an old sheep in his barn, closing the doors in such a way that nothing could get in. The next morning he went to the barn and discovered the sheep […]