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Monthly Archives: February 2013

About Dogs.

Saturday, February 2, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, May 6, 1907

This is the time of year when dogs seem to become ferocious and many people have been thoroughly frightened and narrowly escaped being bitten by dogs jumping upon them unceremoniously. Yesterday O. D. Goss was bitten on the hand by a dog which he shot afterward. The wound is not serious, but had to be […]

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Cat And Ostrich Farms.

Saturday, February 2, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, May 3, 1907

Cat farms are numerous all over the country and that there is money in ostrich farms is proven by the fact that there are at present several in the United States that are paying handsomely.

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Prize Duck Blows Up.

Saturday, February 2, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, January 4, 1910

Silas Perkins Loses Eye-Bird Had Feasted on Yeast. Des Moines, Ia., Jan.1.-The strangest accident recorded in local history occurred, when a duck which had taken prizes at the recent Iowa poultry show, exploded into several hundred pieces, one of which struck Silas Perkins in the eye, destroying the sight. The cause of the explosion was […]

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Rats Killed Prize Pigeons.

Saturday, February 2, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, January 4, 1910

Therefore they Cannot be Entered in Show Next Week. One of the tragedies of Fowlland took place night before last when rats entered the Hutton-Totterdale coops, attacked two valuable blue magpies, killed them and ate their heads off. The magpies were registered and were to have been entered in the poultry show, hence the grief […]

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