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Pet Baboon On Rampage.

Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, October 25, 1912

Springfield, Ill., Oct. 25-“Tom,” a pet baboon, tried to transform Springfield into an African jungle and nearly succeeded. He escaped from his cage at the No. 1 engine house, where he had been the pet of the firemen. For an hour he had things his own way, raiding fruit stands and biting four children, one of them Mary Nelson, aged nine, a scholar at the Battle Stuart Institute for girls.

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