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Wed In Lion’s Cage.

Sunday, January 26, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, October 5, 1904

Bloomington Couple Married in These Unique Surroundings. Bloomington, Ill., October 5. A unique wedding attracted much attention. Arthur Anderson and Hattie Ball, a couple from Downs, this county, were made man and wife while standing on a pyramid in a den of lions, panthers and hyenas. Justice W. B. Hendryx accompanied the couple into the […]

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The Capture of Hyenas.

Friday, December 16, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 22, 1877

     The following mode of tying hyenas in their den, as practiced in Afghanistan, is given by Arthur Connolly, in his Overland Journal, in the words of an Afghan chief, the Shirkaroe Synd Daond: “When you have tracked the beast  to his den you take a rope with two slip-knots upon it in your right […]

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The Survival of the Fittest.

Thursday, December 15, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 15, 1877

     The fiercest beasts in the London Circus menagerie at the Hippodrome are the hyenas- the “grave-robbing hyenas” they have been called. They make more trouble than the lions and the tigers, fighting among themselves constantly; and when they engage in these combats they must be promtly separated or the stronger and younger beasts, frenzied […]

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