Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Porko, pedigreed Duroc Jersey pig, with two Great Danes, two Afghan hounds, many a crate of pheasants and chickens, left on the motorship Santa Maria, in the charge of Dog-fancier José Leguia, son of famed Augusto B. Leguia, President of Peru. Porko will not grace the Presidential pigpens. Son Leguia intends him as a gift to a friend. Danes, hounds, will join 60 dogs at his Peruvian farm, 150 miles from Lima...
Rabies. Nineteen Chicagoans have died in the last ten months from hydrophobia caused by dog bites. For the eight years previous to 1927 no single human death had occurred. Since August, 1927, 1,046 Chicagoans known to have been bitten by rabid dogs have been given the Pasteur treatment by the department of health. Never before has there been such a situation in Chicago or any other large American city. These facts, reported last fortnight, by Health Commissioner Dr. Arnold H. Kegel caused the Institute of Medicine of Chicago to recommend...
Smart Berliners, always keen patrons of horse racing, turned recently to dog racing and last week to woman racing...
...Alexandre Dimitri Golitzin,* onetime Court Master of Ceremonies to Tsar Nicholas II, was named in despatches as chief backer of the Woman Racing Syndicate. The track was equipped, in time for the first race last week, with automatic pari-mutuel betting machines, similar to those used on horse and dog racetracks throughout Europe...
...Conservation Department has taken that spotted fawn [which he had named First Ballot] from a crippled boy, I'll send it back to him so quickly, you won't see it for dust. Yes, I'll send him back another one with it and a dog if he wants...