Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, September 30, 1921
    The search for food is the crow’s chief business, although his love for glittering things causes him to wander from his ordered road when attracted by the gleam of some object at a distance. If this object of his curiosity can be transported, he takes it. The crow is easily tamed, but the process […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, July 2, 1908
Buena Park Excited by Murder Among the Fowl of the Air. Â Â Â Â Fashionable Buena Park is excited over the execution of a little English sparrow. In no other city are birds as welcome as in Buena Park. Although Buena Park takes care of its feathered visitors, no scheme has as yet been devised to prevent […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, July 27, 1922
    News of a remarkable case of bird intelligence comes from Manchester, London Tit-Bits states.     Several people at the Assizes noticed the peculiar behavior of a sparrow which was leaping from one of the chimneys and then falling to the roof as though injured, but nobody appeared to suspect that the bird was a […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, November 9, 1900
William Pherson Kills Milton Knapp and Hogs Devour His Body. Â Â Â Â A bitter feud which has existed for years between two aged men, Milton Knapp and William Pherson, brothers-in-law, owning large tracts of land near Franklin, Ind., was ended by the killing of Knapp by Pherson. When the body of Knapp was discovered by a […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, April 17, 1875
    Mr. Jessie Laverty, of East Pennaboro, living near Booser’s Mill, was lately very much annoyed by rats, which carried off his eggs, ate the corn in his crib, and then invaded his grainary and commenced destroying a bin of wheat. Mr. Laverty, on examination, found but one place where the rats got in. He […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, February 5, 1897
     A story is told of a recently deceased rat who obtained oil from a narrownecked bottle by dipping his tail therein. Then he licked the oil from his long and well-oiled tail and waxed fat. The truth of the story is certified by reputable men, and is contained in “Stories of Animal Sagacity,” a […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 7, 1863
    On going into my own cow-shed a short time since to see a cow that had a young calf. I found her quietly chewing her cud, and to my astonishment, I observed a large rat lying at full lenth between her hind legs, sucking vigorously at one of her teats. My first impression was […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 29, 1857
    If you are pestered with rats, try the method suggested by the Boston Cultivator: “Take a barrel with one head, put in sufficient water to drown the rats. Fasten over the top some thin, elastic covering a drumhead, or sheepskin with the wool off will do; put in meat or some kind of bait […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, July 2, 1897
    Woodford County is the scene of a rat pest. Farmers have been holding their corn cribs for a long time and the rats have been growing strong and healthy on a straight corn diet. They have bred with frightful rapidity, and now that the corn is being hauled away they look for new sources […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 7, 1896
    By the time Stephen Perletice, of Chicago, gets through with the Illinois Humane Society, the police and two or three insurance companies he will know enough not to set fire to any more rats. Some of the retribution that is coming to him has reached him already, for the poor beasts which he tortured […]