Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 27, 1878
    A singular practice of fishing is found amongst the Chones Indians. They train dogs to aid them in fishing and the dog helps them in much the same way as the shepherd’s dog helps the shepherd.     The net is held by two men standing in the water, and the dogs, swimming out far […]
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 30, 1881
    A singular encounter between a dog and a donkey occurred recently in Blackpool, England. The dog rushed at the donkey as he was standing in a field, and fastened on his nose. The donkey shook him off, bit him about the head and shoulders, and tossed him wildly about. The dog again seized the […]
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, August 6, 1906
    Reports from Labrador state that five persons were killed and eaten by savage dogs of that coast during the last winter. These dogs, which have largely interbred with wolves, have frequently killed people heretofore. One of the victims last winter was a man, aged thirty-five, and the others were an elderly man and his […]
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, October 5, 1911
Zion City People Loose Geese, Calves, Dogs, and a Horse Result of Errant Rabid Canine. Bart Tyrrell Shoots Dog. Â Â Â Â Either a case of more mad dogs or of the same errant one that caused the loss through rabies of cattle at Gurnee, Wadsworth, Russell, Yorkhouse and Zion City, people has suffered a mad dog […]
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, April 29, 1910
    With the loud crack of the whip and a yelping of Siberian wolf hounds attached to what looked like an automobile, George F. Small, “Shorty for short,” a native of Ontario, Canada, and H. T. Boone, colored dog master and a native of Whalen, Siberia, drove into Waukegan before daylight Friday morning in the […]
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 4, 1905
Neighbor’s Favorite Fox Terrier Bites Its Accustomed Playmate. Â Â Â Â A dog leaped into the face of little Gerald Heyliger and snapped the end of his nose off when the child stooped to pet it in front of his home in Chicago. Gerald, who is 12 years old, with blood streaming from the end of his […]
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, April 2, 1881
    A Charlotte [N. C.] special of a recent date to the Chicago Inter Ocean says:     A very remarkable occurrence at Shoeheel, a small town between this city and Wilmington, has just stirred up the whole section of country contiguous thereto. Mr. William D. Baldwin, a highly respectable citizen, was returning, Saturday night, from […]
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, October 11, 1912
Louis Miller Taken To Chicago Wednesday Night-To Take Treatment. Â Â Â Â Gurnee, Ill., Oct. 3.-Louis Miller, of Lamb’s Corners, was rushed to Chicago Wednesday night to take treatment at the Pasteur Institute. Â Â Â Â Miller was badly bitten by a dog last Sunday. The dog was shot and his head was taken to Chicago for examination. The […]
Friday, September 3, 2010
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, July 20, 1906
    Minneapolis, July 18.-What to do in case a mad dog bursts into a room, was the unexpected problem the solution of which Dean J. F. Fowney demonstrated to his class in pedagogy at the state university summer school. He was engaged in pointing the pedagogical path to an interesting group of propective schoolmaams, when […]
Friday, September 3, 2010
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, January 17, 1902
Family In West Virginia Has Fierce Fight. Man and Wife Save Chidren and Finally Kill Rabid Animals. Â Â Â Â Attacked in their home by five mad dogs, Elmer S. Good and family, who live in Chester, W. Va., opposite East Liverpool, Ohio, came off victorious in a fight for their lives the other morning. The family […]