Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Monday, January 28, 1850
At the battle of Ourtal, of the French and Algerians, 3,000 camels and 15,000 sheep were captured.
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, July 31, 1851
We mentioned some days since the importation into Baltimore of eleven Camels from the Canary Islands. From an article in the New York Herald we learn that they are the property of Messrs. Sands & Howes, the enterprising and well known circus proprietors of that city, who are about establishing an overland route to California. […]
Saturday, January 19, 2013
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 14, 1903
Over Score Of People Killed And Fifty Hurt. Circus Trains Collide at Durand, Mich., and Men and Animals Perish-Wallace Brothers Show in Terrible Accident-Air Breaks Fail. Twenty-two persons were killed and about fifty injured in a wreck on the Grand Trunk road a mile from Durand, Mich., Friday. One section of Wallace Brothers circus train […]
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 28, 1881
A traveler from Pekin to Siberia, across the great desert of Gobi, tells us that whenever a camel’s feet have become tender and sore from long marches, the poor creature lies down. His driver knows at once that his feet hurt him, and looks to find out if the thick skin of the feet is […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 23, 1879
A remarkable attachment sprang up between a white camel and an elephant belonging to John Robinson’s circus. When the company started from Texas, considerable beating was required to force the camel on board the steamer, at which the elephant showed great anger, and frightened a crowd badly by rushing to the scene. After they reached […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 26, 1876
Howe’s circus was showing at Indianola when the storm of the fourth came on, and because of injury to the railroads was compelled to remain there until the track was temporarily repaired. Then the circus started for their next place of exhibition. When about eight miles out one corner of a bridge gave way, and […]
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville. Illinois on Friday, May 6, 1904
Gasoline Torch Explodes and Destroys Camels, Elephants and Bears. Â Â Â Â A circus train arrived in Pawnee City, Neb., late the other night. Early the next morning one of the animal-keepers went through the elephant cars to see that all was right, when the gasoline torch which he carried exploded and the entire car was immediately […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 4, 1882
    The camel’s kick is a study. As it stands demurely chewing the cud, and gazing abstractedly at some totally different far-away object, up goes a hind leg, drawn close into the body, with the foot pointing out; a short pause, and out it flies with an action like the piston and connecting-rod of a […]