Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, September 10, 1823
     Snakes are being kept to catch rats in Sawtelle, Cal. Like keeping mosquitoes to catch flies.
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, November 1, 1912
     Griggsville, Il., Oct.-After 200 bushels of corn had disappeared from a 500 bushel crib on the Anderson brothers’ farm, a trap was set and 125 rats killed.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, September 29, 1922
    Dogs or cats which are good “ratters” are an asset to a farm, according to a bulletin issued by the Will County Farm bureau.     It is estimated on good authority that a rat on the farm destroys $17 worth of grain, eggs, poultry and property of various kinds every year. The cost of […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, December 15, 1922
    Director George Jennison of the Manchester Zoological gardens pronounces Great Britain’s “rat week,” when efforts were made to decimate the rats responsible for the destruction of $140,000,000 worth of food annually, to be a great mistake. The male rat, the bold rover, is the one caught by poison, and the death of males only […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, July 18, 1913
    An old story used to go around of a plumber who kept a lot of rats in his shop in a trap, and when he had a call always took one along. The rat was frightened or forced to take to the drain, and he burrowed through to his liberty in the sewer. Of […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, February 4, 1898
Therefore the Convick Wept When They Killed His Pet Rats. Â Â Â Â A few days ago, at sunrise, there was an execution in the damp, chilly yard of the New Jersey penitentiary, at Trenton, and as the sharp sound of musketry died away Burglar George Pytzel, a twenty-year convict, wept piteously and refused to eat or […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, April 23, 1897
     While workmen were engaged last week in demolishing a barn on the Thompson property in Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., they found under the roof a rats’ nest which was made of greenbacks. The money had been badly torn and chewed, but most of it, if not all, is redeemable.     Prof. Thomas F. […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, May 20, 1898
    During the fall of 1874 rats became a serious menace to the farmers of Jackson County, Kansas, and one night at a meeting of the literary society in the Coleman school house it was proposed to organize a hunt. Sides were chosen, and it was agreed that the losers were to pay for a […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, May 19, 1905
    The 1-month-old child of Henry Yantes, which was bitten by a rat about a week ago, died in Columbus, Ohio. The baby was left in the cradle by its mother, who went to another part of the house. When she returned she saw a rat gnawing the face of the screaming baby. The rat […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, August 19, 1908
    Mattoon, Ill., Aug. 19.- Pie-eating, quail-eating, fishing and rabbit killing contests are not uncommon, but the people of Obed, near Mattoon, are now in the throes of a new kind of contest that is engrossing the attention of the inhabitants of the little town. The contest has for its object the extermination of rats, […]