Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Sunday, June 26, 1870
    The following incredible “rat story” is vouched for by one of the well known brick masons of this city, who with several of his family, watched the performance, which illustrates an animal genuity and cunning almost equaling human reason.     A basket of eggs was placed on the floor, and two rats adopted the […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 15, 1876
    An amusing experiment on rats was recently perpetrated in a mercantile house in Petersburg, Vt. Two of these animals had been trapped, and it was decided to try the effect of whisky upon them. Forty drops were administered to each of them by force, and the result awaited. They were placed in a wide […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, August 20, 1913
Rodents Which Have Made Their Home Under Bridge, Driven From Refuge. Some Portions Overrun. Small Army Of Pests Seen To Make Their Way Up Genesee St. A Few Days Ago.     Waukegan has been invaded!     Thousands of invaders have made their appearance and are overrunning the entire city. There is a possibility that battery C […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, April 6, 1922
    It has been estimated that the economic loss from rats in the United States is $200,000,000 a year. In other estimates before the war, the annual damage in the United Kingdom was $70,000,000. As a carrier of bubonic plague and other diseases, the rat is charged with the loss of more human lives than […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, April 12, 1873
    Mr. C. Clark, of O’Plain, gives us the following rat story, for the truth of which he vouches. A few nights since he placed an old sheep in his barn, closing the doors in such a way that nothing could get in. The next morning he went to the barn and discovered the sheep […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, September 10, 1823
     Snakes are being kept to catch rats in Sawtelle, Cal. Like keeping mosquitoes to catch flies.
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, November 1, 1912
     Griggsville, Il., Oct.-After 200 bushels of corn had disappeared from a 500 bushel crib on the Anderson brothers’ farm, a trap was set and 125 rats killed.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, September 29, 1922
    Dogs or cats which are good “ratters” are an asset to a farm, according to a bulletin issued by the Will County Farm bureau.     It is estimated on good authority that a rat on the farm destroys $17 worth of grain, eggs, poultry and property of various kinds every year. The cost of […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, December 15, 1922
    Director George Jennison of the Manchester Zoological gardens pronounces Great Britain’s “rat week,” when efforts were made to decimate the rats responsible for the destruction of $140,000,000 worth of food annually, to be a great mistake. The male rat, the bold rover, is the one caught by poison, and the death of males only […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, July 18, 1913
    An old story used to go around of a plumber who kept a lot of rats in his shop in a trap, and when he had a call always took one along. The rat was frightened or forced to take to the drain, and he burrowed through to his liberty in the sewer. Of […]