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Monthly Archives: April 2010

Wedding Ends A Bloody Feud.

Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun on April 23, 1897. Hatfield-McCoy Vendetta Is Declared Off After Fifteen Years.      The bloodest feud that ever made life in the south uncertain has come to a close. The Hatfield-McCoy vendetta has been nullified by the marriage of Aaron Hatfield and Mary McCoy. Five dollars worth of mountain […]

Hog Caused His Death.

Published in The Lake County Independent on November 26, 1897.      At Milan, Mo., Thomas Epperson of Lancaster, while attemping to load hogs, was bitten through the thigh, severing an artery. He bled to death in thirty minutes.

Pigs

Published in The Lake County Independent on March 1, 1895.      An unheard-of procedure on the part of feeders of swine is being practiced by some farmers around Bowen. They are buying plug horses and feeding them to hogs. John Mark has fed to his hogs about sixty-horses, and Jess Find, another hog raiser, has […]

Grasshopper Trapper Finds Pigs Dote On The New Delicacy

Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on August 18, 1919.      Pana, Ill. Aug. 17.-Finding that his second clover crop was being destroyed by grasshoppers, Cyrus W. Rayhill spent $19 to build a grasshopper trap. Last week he caught eighteen bushels of grasshoppers. He dried the insects and fed them to the hogs […]

Found That Hogs Could Jump.

Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on August 29, 1913.      A Geary county [Kas.] farmer built a “hog-tight” fence around his feed lot just before he received a big shipment of Arkansas “razorbacks.” The next morning the hogs were scattered all over the county. It was found that most of them could […]

A Wife For Seven Pigs.

Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on November 3, 1922.      Wives in New Guinea have a miserable time. It is true they have a high value-sometimes as many as seven pigs are paid for a wife. But the wives are badly treated and often are killed for minor offenses. Yet, strange to […]

Larder Is Filled With Quail By Hunting Hog

Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on August 12, 1922.      Frogmore, La. 12-When quail season rolls around, Colonel Tucker Gibson shoulders his shotgun and takes in leash Betsy, America’s only hunting hog.      And he comes home with his game bag filled.      Betsy, four-year-old offspring of a common southern razorback hog, […]

Street Travel

Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune on June 22, 1879 Dangers to Life and Limb incident to the Highway. Proportionately More Killed and Wounded than on Railroads. In Seven Weeks 59 Runaways, 44 Persons Injured, and five Killed.      Few people have any conception of the infinite risk and danger to which are subject from […]

Wolves Invade A Big City

  Residents of Minneapolis driven to trees by the animals.      Timber Wolves are causing a reign of terror in the northeastern portion of Minneapolis, where several of the brutes have been killed during the last few days. The animals have been driven in from the outlaying districts by hunger and several persons out late […]