Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, May 6, 1904
Farmer In Mercer County Kills 3,435 Rodents In Two Weeks. Â Â Â Â The towns in Mercer, Rock Island and Whiteside counties have been suddenly overrun with millions of rats, and are doing great damage to stock and grain. One farmer, P. N. Montgomery of Preemption, in two weeks succeeded in killing 3,435 of the rodents. In […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, December 27, 1917
     The number of useful insect-eating birds nesting on the ground or in low bushes which fall victims to rats is extremely large and is one of the many kinds of injury by these pernicious animals which cannot be computed, E. W. Nelson writes in the National Geographic Magazine. Probably few frequenters of the […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, December 27, 1917
In Copper Mines of Michigan Rodents Are Regarded as Preventors, Not Carriers, of Disease. Â Â Â Â There are few places in the world where rats are well thought of, but in the copper mines of Michigan there rodents, so universally despised, and causing so much danger to health and damage to property everywhere else, are regarded […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, October 22, 1881
    When the clerks in a certain Rochester drug store are not operating with the morter and pestle, or compounding a black draught, or mixing equal parts of Turkey rhubarb and hydrocyanic acid [for children teething], or spreading shoemaker’s wax on porous plasters or engaged in any of the multifarious modes of making themselves useful […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 6, 1885
    Paris is cleared of rats; by her municpal council offering a premium for their skins. Two years ago the premium was $3 per 1,ooo, but has recently been raised to $10 per 1,000, in order to get the city cleared of the pests. The kid-glove makers utilize the skins, buying them from the city.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 2, 1867
    Catching rats is often difficult, as the old rats are proverbially cunning. Laying around poison is not alone dangerous, but objectionable for the reason that the rats may die in inaccessible spots and contaminate the atmosphere with the well known detestable odor. A better plan has been adopted by one of our correspondents by […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, April 27, 1909
Rodents Have To Be Routed Before Blaze Can Be Quenched. Â Â Â Â New York, April 27.-Firemen who were called to fight a blaze in a junk shop in One Hundred and Eighteenth street were attacked by hundreds of large rats. Â Â Â Â So vicious was the onslaught of the rodents as they climbed the legs of the […]
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, October 30, 1875
    An exchange gives the following account of a weasel’s stratagem, with the suspicious remark that it is vouched for by a friend. A grist-mill was infested with large rats, until a weasel came there and destroyed nearly all of them. There was, however, one large rat which he could not conquer. They had several […]
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, August 2, 1918
While Watching for rats, They Frighten Away Hawks-Are Broken From Killing Little Ones. Â Â Â Â Did you know that cats are a valuable asset to the poultryman? You might believe that they were anything but invaluable because of their innate love for fresh meats. But sweeter than baby chicks to the palate of the cat are […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, October 30, 1903
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois, on 10/30/1903. Charles Wyngate of Farmington Is Killed By Strychnine. Â Â Â Â Charles Wyngate of Farmington, aged 60 years is dead from poisoning by strychine. Mrs. Wyngate, who has been much troubled by rats, made two pies the other day. One of these she prepared for table use; […]