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Pigs

Saturday, April 17, 2010
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, March 1, 1895

Published in The Lake County Independent on March 1, 1895.      An unheard-of procedure on the part of feeders of swine is being practiced by some farmers around Bowen. They are buying plug horses and feeding them to hogs. John Mark has fed to his hogs about sixty-horses, and Jess Find, another hog raiser, has […]

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Dog

Monday, March 1, 2010
Published in the The Waukegan Gazette on Saturday, August 28, 1880

Published in The Waukegan Gazette on August 28, 1880.      A large Newfoundland dog, accompanied by a small black and tan, visited a Hartford police officer’s yard and deliberately killed a pet Scotch terrier belonging to the house. The two strange dogs carried the body away, finally leaving it on Windsor avenue.

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Elephant Kills His Master

Monday, March 1, 2010
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, May 3, 1901

Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on May 3, 1901. Brute Is Then Given Strychnine and Shot to Death.      Henry Hoffman, elephant man of Benjamin Wallace’s circus, was killed by “Charlie,” a monster tusk elephant, and the beast was then put to death. Hoffman and his men had all the elephant’s in […]

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Dogs

Monday, March 1, 2010
Published in the The Waukegan Gazette on Saturday, July 17, 1869

Published in The Waukegan Gazette on July 17, 1869.      The Bloomington Reader says Dr. Harrison Noble, of Heyworth, in McLean county, had 80 sheep killed and 170 mortally wounded the other night by two dogs. The dogs would catch the sheep by the neck and hold them down until dead, or nearly so. When […]

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The Waukegan Gazette

Monday, March 1, 2010
Published in the The Waukegan Gazette on Saturday, October 22, 1870

published October 22, 1870 by The Waukegan Gazette.      Four hundred and fifty ducks were killed at Grass lake last week by the Nippersink club. The members of this club returned to town on Saturday last.

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Children Killed by Timber Wolves

Monday, March 1, 2010
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, December 14, 1900

       Two children named Bertrand, brother and sister, met a horrible death at Englishman’s River, on the northern British Columbia coast. They were attacked and killed by wolves.

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A professional hunter

Monday, March 1, 2010
Published in the The Waukegan Gazette on Saturday, January 19, 1867

Punlished in the Waukegan Gazette on January 19, 1867      A professional hunter, living in Peoria county has killed, this season, twenty-seven hundred and seventy three ducks, mostly mallards, eighteen geese, twelve brant, seventeen wild turkeys, nine prairie chickens, and three quails.

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