Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 18, 1922
Dogs of Scotland Are Also the Companions and Protectors of the Crofter Children. Â Â Â Â The sheepdogs of Scotland are guides and defenders not only of the sheep flocks, but also the children of the crofters. Were it not for these shaggy, intelligent fellows, born shepherds of the weak and defenseless, it would be unsafe for […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, June 10, 1904
    A Newfoundland dog taken from Omaha to Portland, Ore., when his owners moved there a year ago, has returned to his old home. His blistered feet and shaggy coat are sufficient evidence that a large part of the 1,800 miles was covered on foot.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Sunday, December 28, 1873
    A noble Newfoundland dog once went with a mother and her child to the village. Soon after their arrival, the little girl was burned so severely as almost to produce convulsions. A physician, an absolute stranger, was summoned, under whose soothing remedies the girl was quieted and fell asleep, when the doctor took his […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, October 2, 1903
    An Albany dog dragged his 7-year-old mistress from a fire occasioned by a gasoline explosion, saving her life and summoning help by barking. All the hair on the dog’s back was burned off.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, March 5, 1906
 Methods Used by the Fishermen of the Tropics.     Turtles are always captured at night and usually on moonlight ones. This is the time they go on the shore to lay their eggs. They select a smooth, sandy beach, dig holes in the sand, deposit their eggs there and leave them to be hatched […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Sunday, March 5, 1905
 Tyranny of the pampered sacred Beasts of Asia.     In Benaras the Person Who ill Treats a Monkey Runs the Risk of Being torn to Pieces-How the Holy Bull Victimizes the Bazaar Man.     Readers of Kipling’s “Kim” which gives a better picture of Indian life than anything else in print, may recall how […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, February 21, 1906
    As a climax to the work of cutting ice on Round Lake, an accident occured Tuesday afternoon which gave all of the ice cutters a shock and completely unnerved them for their remainder of the day’s work.     Peter Bowers, a well known farmer near Round Lake, was on the lake and the ice […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, January 31, 1906
    A crowd of people around the post office were vastly amused yesterday afternoon by a horse desengaging itself from a wagon and leaving the wagon and driver in the middle of the street. Something gave way on the harness and the horse tore up the street at a terrific rate of speed the onlookers thinking […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, November 13, 1905
    A human being is a queer animal after all. We eat possums and pay fancy prices for them, yet a vulture will not touch one. During a long season of snow years ago a farmer said the buzzards in his locality were almost starved, and to rest the matter he killed a possum and […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, August 19, 1907
    Oconto Falls, Wis., Aug. 19.-Fred Schiller, the son of Gottried Schiller, a farmer, while leading a horse was dragged by the animal for many rods. The chain which held the horse wound round the lad’s head and tore it from the body.