Friday, September 16, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, October 15, 1915
    Last Sunday towards evening Mrs. William Johnson of Barrington and her two little daughters, aged three and five years, went to get a pail of water from the barn yard and were attacked by a Jersey cow. Mrs. Johnson was near and tried to protect them as much as possible, but the cow was very quick and unmanageable; the father succeeded in picking up the children and was trying to get away when the animal caught the three of them on her head and carried them about 20 feet. A hired man came to their reacue. Dr. Shearer was called at once and found the children in bad condition, being bruised on the head, body and fingers. No bones were broken but they have been unable to walk since. The Johnsons live on the Otis South farm.
Friday, September 16, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, September 3, 1919
Costs $180,000,000 to Support Rats in Country Each Year, Statistics Show.
Start National Campaign.
    There is a rat for every person in the United States.
    If every man, women and child was to make his and her financial prorata contribution to what these hundred million or more rats exceed for upkeep annually. On this basis the United States pays its rats about $180,000,000 every year which would build and maintain a university or keep Mexico satified for a long time.
    The United States Public Health service has figured this out and issues these and many more rat facts in a brochure that calls upon all Americans who are fond of hearth to enlist in the government’s war against the Norway or brown rat, the common black rat and the Alexandrian rat, who is a particularly mean beast of untidy habits and a native disreguard for the most elemental niceties of life.
    Under “Rout the Rat” the Public Health service issues the following anti-rat rules.
Rout The Rat!
    By starving him through the use of rat proof receptacles for food and covered metal garbage cans.
    By refusing him admission to the comfort of your buildings through rat proof construction and sealed basement openings.
    By killing him at every opportunity.
    By demanding city anti-rat ordinances and state anti-rat laws.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, July 19, 1916
    Joliet, Ill., July 18.- Mrs. Mary Palace today asked the police to “arrest” a large rooster belonging to John Francis, a neighbor, after it had attacked her 2-year-old son, Leo, and beaten him into unconsciousness.
    The boy was chasing the fowl when it suddenly turned on him with spur and beak. Leo attempted to escape, but tripped and fell. The rooster hopped on his head and began driving his spurs and bill into the boy’s scalp.
    The boy was insensible when the mother reached him and drove the bird away. His scalp was torn in several places.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, August 4, 1916
Unusual Case of Animal Instinct Displayed by Animal of J. J. Rouse.
Pined For its Old Home.
After Long Absence the Horse Finally Appears at Master’s Gate for Admittance.
    About five months ago J. J. Rouse, who owns a large farm just west of here, sold a fine black horse to a farm laborer on his place just as the man was leaving for Chicago to work. Wednesday morning of last week he was told that a stray horse has been taken in by the farm hand about 7 o’clock that morning, and on going in the barn he saw this same horse tied to the manger.
    Mr. Rouse had no more than stepped into the barn before the horse noticed his former owner and commenced to show appreciation of seeing him again, and when Mr. Rouse walked into the stall where the horse was tied the animal was so pleased with the strokes and pattings that it fairly “talked.”
    Two months ago Mr. Rouse received a telephone call from the man in Chicago who bought the horse, telling him to be on the lookout for the animal as it had broken out of the barn in the city. For weeks the Rouse family kept a sharp lookout for the appearance of the horse, but they finally gave it up. Early Wednesday morning the farm hand found the horse standing at the barn yard gate, and not knowing whose it was led it to the barn, where the horse picked out an empty stall to stand and be tied. This happened to be the same stall where the horse was used to be tied. Mr. Rouse called up the man in Chicago, telling him that his horse had come back to the old farm.
    That some person detained the horse for weeks is believed as the halter on the animal was broken.
    N. B.-If Mr. Rouse is a good sport he just ought to buy that horse back and keep him because of his loyalty.
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, September 25, 1916
Fear an Invasion by Rats When Mammoth Pile of Junk is Moved From Street.
Thousands Of Rats There.
Have Taken Refuge in Enormous Pile of Junk That is Stored by Janowitz.
    Residents of Ash street are thinking seriously of inserting an advertisement reading somewhat as follows:
    Wanted-A Pied Piper who will guarantee to lead all the rats out of the neighborhood. Price no object. Answer at once.
    The advertisement would not be quite as silly as it may sound for the proposition that confronts the residents of that residence district is a serious one.
    For years Janowitz has had a junk yard on Ash street. Neighbors say that the lower part of the junk heap has not been disturbed for years. During the greater part of that time it has made a home for rats. At first there was only a few of them, but they seemed to thrive and their families have multipied to such an extent that it is claimed there are now thousands of them at the present time.
    Neighbors say it is no exaggeration to state that some of them are as large as an ordinary cat. In fact Mrs. Janowitz is said to have killed one that size with a broom a few days ago. They are said to scamper in and out of the pile in droves.
    Neighbors would not object so much if the rats would stay in the pile but a new situation has developed. Janowitz together with other junk dealers must move his small mountain of junk, and this within a few days. The neighbors fear that when the hordes of rats are deprived of their regular home that they will seek abode in nearby homes and in sheds and will become a positive nuisance. This if they were able to hire a second Pied Piper of Hamlin who would “pipe” the rats away they would be willing to pay whatever price was demanded.
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, October 9, 1916
Maltese and Four Kittens Discovered Far Up in Tree.
    New York.-High in a maple tree a Maltese cat belonging to Mickael Dooley, owner of a saloon on Union street, Flushing, purred over her four brand new kittens. She had carried to the spot material for what might be called a nest. Lying on guard over her young ones, she appeared to enjoy the refreshing breeze at that altitude.
    The keeper of “Fort Dooley” had missed his pet and was surprised to find her comfortably ensconced among the branches.
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 6, 1916
Fourteen Year Old Lad Shows Presence of Mind Which Results in His Escape.
    A miraculous escape from serious injury or death happened in Zion City Friday afternoon. About 2 o’clock a horse and rig belonging to the American Express Company suddenly went bounding along Elijah avenue at full speed. A boy about 14 years of age named Richard Siemeil was seated in the rig at the time the horse bolted and as the horse and rig turned slightly in front of Zion Stores some thought the boy would be killed as the rig was headed for the hitching posts. The horse swung out, however, and, missing the posts, galloped off south along the avenue. Up Emmaus avenue and along Enoch avenue they went, with indications that at any moment the rig would capsize. The boy, however sat upon the seat and remained in the rig. Others, with less presence of mind, would have attempted to leap out, as the horse and rig might have crashed into a building or curbing and been overturned. Holding tight to the seat and with the reins trailing on the ground, the boy certainly had a perilous ride. At last the horse turned down Twenty-ninth street, and, rushing across the North Western railroad tracks, narrowly missed being struck by a fast express train, the rig crossing the tracks just before the train.
    Arriving at the Zion bakery building the horse around the corner and the buggy overturned, throwing the boy into the sand. Beyond a scatch on the wrist, he was uninjured.
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, October 26, 1916
Mary Hickey’s donkey fell into a manhole near the Lawrance Armour estate in Lake Forest Wednesday and had to stay there for an hour or so before the police came with a derrick. Mary Hickey is the little old woman who “haunted” the house of Prentiss Coonley some time ago.
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Saturday, November 16, 1822
    Sir Thomas Roe took out some English mastiffs to India, as a present for the Great Mogul; they were of marvellous courage. One of them leapt overboard to attack a school of porpoises, and was lost. Only two of them lived to reach India. They travelled each in a little coach to Agra; one broke loose by the way, fell upon a large elephant, and fastened in his truck, the elephant at last seceeded in hurling him off. This story delighted the Mogul, and these dogs in consequence came to as extraordinary a fortune as Whittington’s cat. Each had a palanquin to take the air in, with two attendants to bear him, and two more to walk on each side and fan off the flies; and the Mogul had a pair of silver tongs made, that he might, when he pleased feed them with his own hand.
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Saturday, September 28, 1822
    The serpents in the possession of Mr. Neal, on Sycamore-street, Petersburg, [Va.] are objects, in our opinion, eminently deserving the attention of the curious. To see a full grown Rattlesnake, [perhaps the most deadly poisonous of the serpentine race] upwards of four feet in lenth, 5 or 6 inches in circumference, with its fangs and rattles entire, so completely domesticated as to be handled with perfect safety, as to coil itself upon the neck and kiss the cheeks of its master-inshort, to be completely under his command as his dog, and to manifest the same grateful affection towards him, is certainly a phenomenon in nature, calculated to excite wonder and astonishment in the minds of the learned. Mr. N. has two other serpents equally docile.
    Mr. Neal, at the solicitation of a number of gentlemen, was induced to exhibit his rattlesnakes publicly at the Court-House on Tuesday evening last. They consist of a male and female, natives of North Carolina, the former full grown, the latter not so large. They are surprisingly tractable, and obedient to the command of their master, and manifest him a degree of attachment which we have been accustomed to witness only in our domestic animals. They were turned loose upon a large table, surrounded by the spectators, without exciting the least alarm. Indeed these reptiles, although in full possession of their life destroying power, yet appear willing to use the dreadful weapons which nature has given them, solely for the purpose of procuring food. They seem to bear no enmity towards man. A large Rat brought within reach of the elder Snake, received a single and apparently a slight blow from the reptile, which in ten minutes produced convulsions, and in fifteen minutes the rat was quite dead. The snake then swallowed his prey, body and limbs, at a mouthful.