Saturday, September 11, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, April 12, 1901
    Carbondale, Ills., April 12.-A unique condition seems to exist at Anna, where for several months an epidemic of smallpox has raged to such an extent that the public schools have been closed and services in the churches have temporarily suspended. In a residence where the occupants have been afflicted with the disease it has […]
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, April 12, 1921
    Baby Marie-she’s a cat-spat, yowled and scratched, when a burgler broke into the home of Mrs. Westley C. Force of Chicago. The burgler beat it.
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, December 8, 1922
    From Prince Edward Island comes this remarkable picture of two valuable silver foxes and their foster-mother, a cat who has mothered them from infancy. The foxes are among those on Rosebank Fur Farm, the largest breeding place of silver foxes in the world.
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, October 3, 1922
    When members of the Rockaway Park [N. Y.] engine company slide down the brass pole, their cat mascot Hans does so, too.
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, July 20, 1922
 By International News Service.     Punxsutawney, Pa., July 20.-An old cat’s mother love was greater than her aversion to water. Under the rear porch of Mr. and Mrs. C. K. McCartney’s house is an old abandoned well. The water is sixteen feet below the ground surface and is several feet deep.     While the […]
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, February 22, 1901
Demented New Jersey Tailor Feeds on Pickled Tabbies. Â Â Â Â A Newark, N. J., tailor is charged with forcing his young children to eat cat meat. He had killed the cat, pickled it, then ate some of it himself and compelled his children to follow suit. He is thought to be partially insane. He says that […]
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, March 8, 1901
San Francisco Furnishes Ratters For Stores And Warehouses. Â Â Â Â There is an odd little man named Echnier who lives in an odd little house in the heart of the busiest portion of San Francisco, who earns his bread oddly enough. His business is the raising of cats, which he puts into warehouses, stores and other […]
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 2, 1875
    In Paris, a bull dog, supposed to be mad jumped upon a horse which a gentleman was riding, but lost his hold, and the horse started at a desperate gallop, with the dog behind him. At first the gentleman tried to stop the horse, but subsequently urged him forward, judging apparantly, that is was […]
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 28, 1874
    A rabid dog bit twenty persons and some forty canines in Chicago last Friday afternoon. Mayor Colvin has issued a proclamatiom ordering dogs muzzled for sixty days from date.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 28, 1874
    A ferry-boat load of cattle were being taken across the Illinois river at Newport recently when they became frightened and rushed to one side of the craft, upsetting it. One of the men in charge, and all the animals, were drowned.