Saturday, September 11, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, October 3, 1922
    When members of the Rockaway Park [N. Y.] engine company slide down the brass pole, their cat mascot Hans does so, too.
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Saturday, September 11, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, July 20, 1922
 By International News Service.     Punxsutawney, Pa., July 20.-An old cat’s mother love was greater than her aversion to water. Under the rear porch of Mr. and Mrs. C. K. McCartney’s house is an old abandoned well. The water is sixteen feet below the ground surface and is several feet deep.     While the […]
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Saturday, September 11, 2010
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, March 8, 1901
San Francisco Furnishes Ratters For Stores And Warehouses. Â Â Â Â There is an odd little man named Echnier who lives in an odd little house in the heart of the busiest portion of San Francisco, who earns his bread oddly enough. His business is the raising of cats, which he puts into warehouses, stores and other […]
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Sunday, September 5, 2010
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, April 29, 1910
    With the loud crack of the whip and a yelping of Siberian wolf hounds attached to what looked like an automobile, George F. Small, “Shorty for short,” a native of Ontario, Canada, and H. T. Boone, colored dog master and a native of Whalen, Siberia, drove into Waukegan before daylight Friday morning in the […]
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Friday, September 3, 2010
Published in the Belvidere Standard, Belvidere, Illinois on Tuesday, June 10, 1862
    I have found, says a correspondent, the following receipt most effectual in killing fleas in dogs, viz. to rub them well over with whisky-it acts like magic, killing them instantly;  if all are not polished off in one application, another will be necessary.
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Friday, September 3, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, November 28, 1910
    A few days ago a valuable setter dog belonging to George Hallowell, in yawning, got its jaws set and despite all efforts to close its mouth the animal could do nothing. Mr. Hallowell tried in vain to alleviate the trouble and as a last resort took the beast to McKillop’s veterinary college, Chicago.     […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, March 16, 1906
    One of the most fantastic of birds is the laughing owl of Florida and some other southern parts. He sits well up in a tree at night and emits a series of loud, strange ha-ha’s that sound like half human laughter. The sound is sufficiently terrifying to a nervous camper unacquainted with the habit […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, March 15, 1906
 The Art of Angling is as Old as the Human Race.     The art of angling no doubt had its origin in man’s necessities. The earliest record of mankind makes reference to the taking of fish for food. There are frequent allusions to it in the Bible. Job, in the oldest book of all, […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, January 3, 1906
    Novel sport was witnessed at Wauconda on New Year’s day, the residents of that locality who have racing horses, having them sharp shod and going onto Bangs’ lake where they had races. The novel sport attracted much attention and many persons saw the races which were fast and close.     The Sun’s Wauconda correspondent […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, October 17, 1922
Mrs. Mary Guerin Attacked by Infuriated Animal Which Broke Thru Fence. Dog Battled With Cow. Â Â Â Â Trampled under the hoofs of an infuriated cow, Mrs. Mary Guerin, who makes her home with her brother, John Rahling, at Wadsworth, was saved from death by Rahling’s dog, which attacked the cow and after a terrific battle between […]