Thursday, December 21, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, March 31, 1853
A correspondent of the Dodge County Gazette, writing from Horicon, Wisconsin, gives the following account of the fish operations carried on at that place: “It is now about seventy days since they first began to take fish at this place, and almost ever since, they have taken from one to eight and ten tons per […]
Thursday, September 1, 2016
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Friday, March 22, 1737
We hear from the upper part of James River that because of the severity of the weather that large flocks of wild fowl were froze to death; and since the ice has been gone, great numbers of fish have been thrown upon the shore dead. The like has not been known in the memory of […]
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Tuesday, May 8, 1855
One hundred and fifty thousand fish, of the first quality of herring and shad, were taken on the 24th ult., at the fishery of Charles W. Mixon on the Albermarle sound. The number was so great that four hauls had to be made with small seines of 25,000 each before the large seine could be […]
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Friday, January 27, 1854
A sword-fish ran his snout into the British ship, Lord Riverdale, on her voyage to Valparaiso, piercing a plank three inches and a half in thickness, and leaving seven inches of the sword on the inside. The ship was compelled to heave to, for repairs.
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, February 24, 1855
Fish are caught in Puget Sound, Washington territory, when dried and lit by the tail, burn like a candle.
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Thursday, March 15, 1855
A short time since a couple of fishermen cut a hole through the ice in a small lake near the St. Croix river in Minnesota, and in four hours caught 356 handsome trout.
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, August 29, 1851
The Medina Citizen is responsible for the following: “We understand that about 150 of the 2000 hogs belonging to the Oak Orchard Distillery, when it was burnt a few days since, got on a regular “bender,” and succeeded in acting almost as silly as do their biped neighbors when in a similar “fix.” They partook […]
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, March 31, 1852
At Oquawka, Illinois, at a single haul of a seine, five thousand pike, bass, perch and sun-fish were taken, last week, and this was but a very small part of the day’s work.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, November 1, 1909
The natives of Tutulia, one of the islands of Oceania, have a peculiar method of catching fish. At a given signal all the inhabitants of the village assemble on the seashore to the number of 200 persons, each one carrying a branch of the cocoa palm. With these in their hands they plunge into the […]
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, December 4, 1911
Labadist missionaries in America wrote to Europe in 1697 that they had eaten oysters a foot long. They said they were very palatable and fully as good as the English variety. An early writer states he had seen oysters thirteen inches in length in Virginia, where in 1609 many of the famished settlers found in […]