Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, February 4, 1898
Therefore the Convick Wept When They Killed His Pet Rats. Â Â Â Â A few days ago, at sunrise, there was an execution in the damp, chilly yard of the New Jersey penitentiary, at Trenton, and as the sharp sound of musketry died away Burglar George Pytzel, a twenty-year convict, wept piteously and refused to eat or […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, May 20, 1898
    During the fall of 1874 rats became a serious menace to the farmers of Jackson County, Kansas, and one night at a meeting of the literary society in the Coleman school house it was proposed to organize a hunt. Sides were chosen, and it was agreed that the losers were to pay for a […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, August 19, 1908
    Mattoon, Ill., Aug. 19.- Pie-eating, quail-eating, fishing and rabbit killing contests are not uncommon, but the people of Obed, near Mattoon, are now in the throes of a new kind of contest that is engrossing the attention of the inhabitants of the little town. The contest has for its object the extermination of rats, […]
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Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, May 6, 1904
Farmer In Mercer County Kills 3,435 Rodents In Two Weeks. Â Â Â Â The towns in Mercer, Rock Island and Whiteside counties have been suddenly overrun with millions of rats, and are doing great damage to stock and grain. One farmer, P. N. Montgomery of Preemption, in two weeks succeeded in killing 3,435 of the rodents. In […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, December 27, 1917
     The number of useful insect-eating birds nesting on the ground or in low bushes which fall victims to rats is extremely large and is one of the many kinds of injury by these pernicious animals which cannot be computed, E. W. Nelson writes in the National Geographic Magazine. Probably few frequenters of the […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, October 22, 1881
    When the clerks in a certain Rochester drug store are not operating with the morter and pestle, or compounding a black draught, or mixing equal parts of Turkey rhubarb and hydrocyanic acid [for children teething], or spreading shoemaker’s wax on porous plasters or engaged in any of the multifarious modes of making themselves useful […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 6, 1885
    Paris is cleared of rats; by her municpal council offering a premium for their skins. Two years ago the premium was $3 per 1,ooo, but has recently been raised to $10 per 1,000, in order to get the city cleared of the pests. The kid-glove makers utilize the skins, buying them from the city.
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 2, 1867
    Catching rats is often difficult, as the old rats are proverbially cunning. Laying around poison is not alone dangerous, but objectionable for the reason that the rats may die in inaccessible spots and contaminate the atmosphere with the well known detestable odor. A better plan has been adopted by one of our correspondents by […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, April 27, 1909
Rodents Have To Be Routed Before Blaze Can Be Quenched. Â Â Â Â New York, April 27.-Firemen who were called to fight a blaze in a junk shop in One Hundred and Eighteenth street were attacked by hundreds of large rats. Â Â Â Â So vicious was the onslaught of the rodents as they climbed the legs of the […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 28, 1874
    A startling report comes from the region known as the Kaskaskia Bottoms, in this state, to the effect that during the past nine months from 10,000 to 15,000 hogs have died of trichina in that neighborhood. At first it was believed to be hog cholera but recent examinations leave no room to question the […]
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