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STRAY DOGS
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STRAY DOGS. Stories of dogs roaming Dubuque neighborhoods were common during the early 1800s. In an effort to solve the problem, police were occasionally summoned to hunt the animals down. In July, 1876 such an episode resulted in the following story in the Dubuque Herald:
Yesterday morning the police, armed and
equipped themselves, according to law,
preparatory to a war on the canine portion.
Forty-eight shots were fired yesterday
morning resulted in killing twenty-eight
dogs and wounding several others.
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Source:
"Shooting the Dogs," Dubuque Herald, July 17, 1876, p. 4. Online: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=uh8FjILnQOkC&dat=18760718&printsec=frontpage&hl=en