Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, November 9, 1900
William Pherson Kills Milton Knapp and Hogs Devour His Body. Â Â Â Â A bitter feud which has existed for years between two aged men, Milton Knapp and William Pherson, brothers-in-law, owning large tracts of land near Franklin, Ind., was ended by the killing of Knapp by Pherson. When the body of Knapp was discovered by a […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 7, 1863
    On going into my own cow-shed a short time since to see a cow that had a young calf. I found her quietly chewing her cud, and to my astonishment, I observed a large rat lying at full lenth between her hind legs, sucking vigorously at one of her teats. My first impression was […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 29, 1857
    If you are pestered with rats, try the method suggested by the Boston Cultivator: “Take a barrel with one head, put in sufficient water to drown the rats. Fasten over the top some thin, elastic covering a drumhead, or sheepskin with the wool off will do; put in meat or some kind of bait […]
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Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, July 2, 1897
    Woodford County is the scene of a rat pest. Farmers have been holding their corn cribs for a long time and the rats have been growing strong and healthy on a straight corn diet. They have bred with frightful rapidity, and now that the corn is being hauled away they look for new sources […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, August 20, 1913
Rodents Which Have Made Their Home Under Bridge, Driven From Refuge. Some Portions Overrun. Small Army Of Pests Seen To Make Their Way Up Genesee St. A Few Days Ago.     Waukegan has been invaded!     Thousands of invaders have made their appearance and are overrunning the entire city. There is a possibility that battery C […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, April 12, 1873
    Mr. C. Clark, of O’Plain, gives us the following rat story, for the truth of which he vouches. A few nights since he placed an old sheep in his barn, closing the doors in such a way that nothing could get in. The next morning he went to the barn and discovered the sheep […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, September 10, 1823
     Snakes are being kept to catch rats in Sawtelle, Cal. Like keeping mosquitoes to catch flies.
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, November 1, 1912
     Griggsville, Il., Oct.-After 200 bushels of corn had disappeared from a 500 bushel crib on the Anderson brothers’ farm, a trap was set and 125 rats killed.
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, December 15, 1922
    Director George Jennison of the Manchester Zoological gardens pronounces Great Britain’s “rat week,” when efforts were made to decimate the rats responsible for the destruction of $140,000,000 worth of food annually, to be a great mistake. The male rat, the bold rover, is the one caught by poison, and the death of males only […]
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Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, July 18, 1913
    An old story used to go around of a plumber who kept a lot of rats in his shop in a trap, and when he had a call always took one along. The rat was frightened or forced to take to the drain, and he burrowed through to his liberty in the sewer. Of […]
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