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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, July 15, 1912

Ring Around Rats Neck.—Bloomington, Illinois., July 15, 1912.Waukegan Daily Sun Wallace Fauber, a farmer of Woodford county, was pitching hay when a rat ran out of the stack. The animal was transfixed with the tines of the fork and killed. Fauber noted a peculiar shape to the head of the animal. Inspection revealed a ring around the neck and when when it was removed the inscription, F. S. to M. S., Sept. 26, 1896,” was plainly visible.
It was supposed the former tenant of the farm, Mrs. Frank Swaider, lost the ring. The rat probably inserted its head through the ring and was unable to remove it. An effort is being made to fine Mrs. Swaider.

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