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Ostriches

Ostriches.

Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Monday, January 15, 1855

The Minnesota Pioneer says that two specimens of the American ostrich, male and female, were recently killed near Fort Desmoines, in the state of Iowa. They are described as four and a half feet long, and five feet in height, with bills six inches long, straight and very sharp.They resemble in most points the ostrich […]

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Cat And Ostrich Farms.

Saturday, February 2, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, May 3, 1907

Cat farms are numerous all over the country and that there is money in ostrich farms is proven by the fact that there are at present several in the United States that are paying handsomely.

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Ostriches.

Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, October 20, 1877

     Two ostriches harnessed to a wagon can pull a load of 1,000 pounds, and all the care they need is a pail of water, two or three old bones, and a hod of brick.

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Fin, Feather and Fur.

Friday, October 7, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, March 9, 1894

The stomach of a dead ostrich at the zoo of Clifton, England, contained a prayer book, a pencil case and two handkerchiefs. A Georgia man killed a snapping turtle and ate it after throwing the head over into the back yard. A few days after the turtle’s head caught a chicken and held it until […]

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