Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, January 29, 1904
Badger fights must cease. Lake County has become famous for this diversion with the side-splitting climax, but its all off now. During the Fireman’s Convention at Waukegan the guests enjoyed a badger fight arranged in their honor, and in some way it leaked out, members of the humane society getting wind of it. Saturday morning […]
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, May 11, 1853
Eleven fine fat seals and an ice monkey from the arctic regions, have recently arrived at Boston, on their way to the world’s fair. The monkey is one of those rare species which live on the ice, sport with walruses and seals, and live on fish.
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Wednesday, January 22, 1727
They write from Shire-Drain in Lincolnshire, that on the 16th of last Month an eel was caught there by one William Townsend which was 7 feet 4 inches in Length; 2 feet 6 inches thick; the fat taken out of it weighed 16 pounds & a half; the ears were 8 inches long; the water […]
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Thursday, September 4, 1732
New England, August 3, 1732. A very strange Creature has been lately seen among our people who have seen it and were afraid. It appeared about the size of a horse with very long tail; it met with a large Ox and ran to it and began to eat the Ox on the shoulder, which […]
Thursday, September 8, 2016
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Thursday, July 11, 1737
A letter from Timothy Forecast in 1737. Sir, Think myself oblig’d to acquaint your Worship, that at my first coming into these parts, our inhabitants were few, and for some years after the country was seated, we were most grievously infected with wolves and bears, to the great perplexity of myself and neighbors; but thanks […]
Published in the Chicago Press and Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Thursday, August 19, 1858
The late hail storm in Minnesota was of a most destrutive character. In Freeborn County, we are told, it raged as a tornado, tearing hundreds of oak trees almost into shreds, tumbling down fences, flattening corn fields, demolishing gardens, and doing much other damage. In Fairfield, Geneva, Clark’s Grove, etc. the storm was characterized by […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, June 3, 1913
Evansville, Indiana. June 8,-C. P. Carlisle, a local undertaker, was bitten in the side by a vicious horse, and his condition is regarded as serious.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, July 31, 1912
Boise, Idaho, July 31.-One man was killed, seven men injured and 1,800 sheep killed when a stock train on the Idaho Northern railroad was wrecked near Guffey, Idaho. The engine rolled down an embankment, taking loaded stock cars with it.
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, August 17, 1898
The valuable and renowned bulldog “His Nibs,” owned by J. Pierpont Morgan, of New York, is dead. The dog was the pet of the family and although valued at $3,000, could not have been bought for twice that. His Nibs was on the lawn when he was heard to yelp and spring into the air. […]
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Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, January 2, 1908
Tuck is an Ordinary Looking Fox Terrier, but His Owner Declares He is the Smartest Canine in the United States. R. M. Smart, proprietor of a grain elevator at Xenia, O., claims to have in Tuck, an ordinary looking fox terrier, the smartest dog in the United States. The dog has never been taught a […]