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A Female Hunter.

Thursday, July 14, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, October 2, 1875

     Miss Molly Allen, of Napa, Cal., a maiden of twelve or thirteen, has killed more game with her small telescope rifle than any two hunters in that region this winter. She made thirty dollars on squirrels tails last summer, getting only five cents apiece. At a shooting match last year she took so many […]

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Ingratitude of Squirrels Prove Their Undoing.

Thursday, July 14, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, September 19, 1913

Petted in Evanston, They Bit the Hands That Fed Them, and They Are “In Bad.”      Squirrels in Evanston-pampered, nut-fattened pets of the residents for many years-have become a nuisance and the protection which has been afforded them by city ordinances is to be withdrawn.      Figuratively speaking, the bushytailed rodents have “bitten the hands […]

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