Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, May 16, 1907
    The greastest ride on horseback ever done up to this time was done by Cowper Thornhill, Huntingdonshire, England, April 29, 1745, who rode 213 miles in 12 hours and 17 minutes to win a wager of 500 guineas.
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Published in the The Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 22, 1881
    At Somerset, Ky., one night last week, a young blood rode his horse into church during an evening service. Arrived at the pulpit he discharged a volley of profanity at the preacher. A companion followed him with a howling dog, which he carried by the hind legs. The congregation were displeased at the preformance […]
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Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, January 21, 1898
    A horse astonished the diners in a Newark [N. J.] restaurant the other day by jumping through the show windows and landing in the dining-room.
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Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, October 20, 1922
    When a sheep was about to be slaughtered, it leaped into the stall of a horse owned by Horton Hayes, Whitefield, N. H. The horse protected it. Now the sheep trots along with the horse wherever it goes, keeping up with its fastest pace.
Published in the The Waukegan daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, October 2, 1900
    The opinion is widely held in India that elephants, when they feel that death is near, retire to secret places in the jungle, where they die far from the sight of man. Thus is explained the fact, so often cited that the skeletons of elephants are almost never met with except those killed by […]
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Thursday, August 28, 1902
Animal in Fighting Flies Gets Hoof Wedged Between Teeth. Â Â Â Â Joseph Metzger, a Galena sewing machine agent, found his horse suffering frightful agonies in his barn. One of the hind feet of the animal was firmly wedged in its mouth. The horse had apparently been fighting flies, had caught an ankle in its jaws, and […]
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Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, April 21, 1899
 Captain Haas of Englewood Finds a “Fence by Novel Means.”     The police of the Englewood district in Chicago recently discovered two men breaking into a house. To escape, the thieves jumped into a wagon drawn by an old grey horse. They were pursued so closely by the police in an express wagon that […]
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Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, June 25, 1897
 Had Eaten Twenty-five Before He Was Discovered.     Squire Letch Weathers, who lives near Clintonville, Ky., has a horse which knows a good thimg when he sees it. Mrs. Weathers raises turkeys for market. She had thirty young turkeys, all doing well and fattening nicely. She turned them loose in the farmyard where the […]
Published in the The Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 10, 1885
     A runaway team created a little excitement in town last Tuesday forenoon. They had been left for a moment in front of Crabtree’s shop, on Genesee street, when a boy passed with an umbrella, frightening them so that they quickly whirled about and ran southward. The owner saw them start and sprang towards […]
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Published in the The Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 5, 1885
     Paper blowing about the streets is a fruitful source of runaways. There are few horses that will not become scared by a sheet of paper blowing in the streets. Rubbish of this sort should always be burned.
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