Friday, December 27, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Thursday, October 13, 1853
We stopped one very sultry day about noon to rest our horses, and enjoy the cooling shade afforded by a clump of sycamore trees, with a refreshing drink from an adjoining spring. Several large hawks were flying about the spot, two of which we brought down. From their great size, immense claws, and large hooked […]
Published in the Sangamo Journal-, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, June 20, 1835
The New York Gazette vouches for the following as a true statement: “A few days since, but a few miles distance in New Jersey, a large hawk, seemingly in great hunger, was discovered hovering over the barn yard of a cottage, watching his opportunity to pounce upon the poultry below. After repeating his visits for […]
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, May 4, 1833
A hawk confined in a cage and placed in the garden or field is found to be much more service to frighten away birds than other scare crows, including a sleepy boy.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 27, 1877
Gilbert White tells a most dramatic story of a neighbor who had lost most of his chickens by a sparrow-hawk that came gliding down between a faggot pile and the end of his house, to the place where his coop stood. The owner, vexed to see his flock diminishing hung a net between the pile […]
Friday, February 17, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 7, 1859
    The cook of a French nobleman whose chateau was in the south of France, had a monkey, which was allowed the free range of the kitchen, and which was so intelligent, that by pretty severe training its natural propensity to mischief had been subdued, and was even taught to perform certain useful services, such […]
Friday, September 16, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, April 19, 1915
In India Those Birds Have Been Labeled “Shreds of Satan.” Â Â Â Â Travelers in the orient have much to say about the Indian crow, a bird that for uncanny knowingness and prankish audacity has perhaps no equal. Corvus splendens-thus have ornithologists flatteringly labeled him. But a naturalist who knows the Indian crows at first hand has […]
Published in the The Waukegan Gazette on Saturday, December 13, 1873
Published in The Waukegan Gazette on December 13, 1873. Â Â Â Â They had a miracle near Belvidere last week. A sick man’s son went out and beat about the bush all afternoon to get a nice, tender partidge for him, and just as he reached the house at night; tired, faint and empty-handed and thinking how […]
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Monday, March 9, 1914
Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette Published: March 9, 1914 Milford, Del, March 7, A large hawk almost killed a small son of L. N. Horsey, a farmer near here. The hawk had killed two chickens when Edward threw a snowball at it. The bird abandoned its meal and turned on the boy. It sank its […]
Published in the The Waukegan Gazette on Wednesday, November 19, 1862
Published in The Waukegan Gazette on November 19, 1862 We have been informed of a singular combat that took place in Pelham, N. H., a few days since, between a hawk and a black snake. Mr. Tristam F. Palmer, while walking in a field in Pelham, came upon a hawk and a black snake in […]