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Owl Is Dead.

Thursday, March 1, 2018
Published in the The Evanston Index, Evanston, Illinois on Saturday, January 7, 1899

The large owl, the veteran of the Santiago campaign, that has been at Wilkerson Bros.’ grocery store, is dead. The bird escaped Spanish and American bullets only to die a violent and tragic death. Friday night last week it caught one of its feet in the wire cage, and when the store was opened Saturday […]

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Hot Battle With A Horned Owl.

Friday, September 19, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, January 8, 1908

Washington Man Wins Desperate Encounter With Big Bird of Ill Omen in a Chicken Coop. Numerous raids have been made recently on people’s chicken houses in the vicinity of Meyern Falls, Wash., by hoboes, who have always succeeded in escaping unpunished with their booty. H. C. Buchanan, an old gentleman sixty-five years old, who lives […]

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Hot Battle With a Horned Owl.

Saturday, July 30, 2011
Published in the lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, December 25, 1908

Washington Man Wins Desperate Encounter With Big Bird of Ill Omen in a Chicken Coop.      Numerous raids have been made recently on people’s chicken houses in the vicinity of Mayers Falls, Wash., by hoboes, who have always succeeded in escaping unpunished with their booty. H. C. Buchanan, an old gentleman sixty-five years old, who […]

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The Laughing Owl.

Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, March 16, 1906

     One of the most fantastic of birds is the laughing owl of Florida and some other southern parts. He sits well up in a tree at night and emits a series of loud, strange ha-ha’s that sound like half human laughter. The sound is sufficiently terrifying to a nervous camper unacquainted with the habit […]

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Owl put up good fight

Monday, March 1, 2010
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Wednesday, April 5, 1922

Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on April 5, 1922.      The ferocity of the white owl is well known. A hunter shot a mallard that fell upon land and on going to retrieve his prize, found the wounded bird had been attacked by an Arctic owl, whose wing spread was six feet. […]

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Wise? old Owl runs into burglar alarm

Monday, March 1, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Monday, October 2, 1922

Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on October 2, 1922.           By International News Service      Cincinnati, Oct. 2-An owl which flew into the open window of a law office on the ninth floor of the Carew Building gave rise to a burglar alarm, scared a night watchman half to death and finally […]

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Battle Between Man An Owl

Monday, March 1, 2010
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Thursday, November 28, 1918

Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on November 28, 1918. Jack O’Connor has thrilling experience in which his clothes are torn off      Jack O’Connor, proprietor of Blarney Island resort, Grass Lake, shot and wounded an enormous white owl, Wednesday at Grass Lake and thinking the big bird was disabled, he attemted to […]

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