Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, April 6, 1922
    It has been estimated that the economic loss from rats in the United States is $200,000,000 a year. In other estimates before the war, the annual damage in the United Kingdom was $70,000,000. As a carrier of bubonic plague and other diseases, the rat is charged with the loss of more human lives than […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, September 29, 1922
    Dogs or cats which are good “ratters” are an asset to a farm, according to a bulletin issued by the Will County Farm bureau.     It is estimated on good authority that a rat on the farm destroys $17 worth of grain, eggs, poultry and property of various kinds every year. The cost of […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, April 23, 1897
     While workmen were engaged last week in demolishing a barn on the Thompson property in Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., they found under the roof a rats’ nest which was made of greenbacks. The money had been badly torn and chewed, but most of it, if not all, is redeemable.     Prof. Thomas F. […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, December 27, 1917
In Copper Mines of Michigan Rodents Are Regarded as Preventors, Not Carriers, of Disease. Â Â Â Â There are few places in the world where rats are well thought of, but in the copper mines of Michigan there rodents, so universally despised, and causing so much danger to health and damage to property everywhere else, are regarded […]
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, June 10, 1918
    It is an undisputed fact that in Morocco pigs climb trees in search of nuts, says the Los Angeles Times. Not only pigs but goats. The puzzle is not in the pigs and goats, however, for they are the common variety that we see here. It is the tree that is strange. It is […]
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, April 22, 1907
    About a dozen farmers boys in New Hampshire turned out one Saturday last winter to hunt down a fox that was known to have his lair in a hill. Reynard was finally routed out, and after leading the crowd a chase of ten miles he doubled back and his trail was lost near a […]
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Sunday, February 13, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, September 26, 1917
    Fort Sheridan, Sept. 24-A threatened invasion of Fort Sheridan by an army of pigs today reached the ears of the wealthy residents of the North Shore and caused much agitation. The pigs may be sent under the Hoover plan to absorb the garbage. The amount thrown away each day would feed a regiment of […]
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Sunday, February 13, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, July 11, 1902
Nearly Two Thousand Accounted For in Special Census. Â Â Â Â The total number of buffalo, or bison, both full and mixed blood, known to exist is 1,940, according to a report submitted to Congress by the Interior Department. Of this number seventy-two are running wild, fifty of which are in Colorado, and the remainder in the […]
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, July 10, 1908
    At the special meeting of the committeemen of the Waukegan Day festival, it was decided to procure a twentieth century paradox which is advertised as the latest and most sensational act in the world in which Prof. F. P. Robinson and a lion leap in mid-air from a monstrous balloon.     The lion jumps […]
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, January 5, 1906
Terril,-Standing in the pulpit of the Methodist church here the other Sunday, Rev. Sutton continued his discourse to the members of his congregation, though a mouse had run up inside his trousers leg, he did not wish to lose his dignity or frighten the feminine members of his congregation, and finally managed to catch the […]
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