Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Sunday, May 24, 1857
It is well known that a considerable portion of the inhabitants of China dwell in floating houses, with large and convenient cabins, where men, women and children may be seen in abundance, having no other home, and gaining a slender livelihood by some occupation that does not require a residence on terra firma. In the […]
Saturday, February 2, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, January 4, 1910
Silas Perkins Loses Eye-Bird Had Feasted on Yeast. Des Moines, Ia., Jan.1.-The strangest accident recorded in local history occurred, when a duck which had taken prizes at the recent Iowa poultry show, exploded into several hundred pieces, one of which struck Silas Perkins in the eye, destroying the sight. The cause of the explosion was […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 30, 1879
“Jimmy-the-Duck,” of Virginia City, Nev., is dead. He made his living by a queer invention. He used to put a duck in a box with its head sticking out of a hole, and allow the crowd to throw clubs at it for 25 cents a throw, the bird belonging to whoever should hit it. The […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 16, 1885
   [Exchange]     Im Maricopa county, Arizona, there is considerable barbed fence, and the vast flocks of wild ducks which frequent the valley often fly low, and, stricking the barbed fences, become impaled thereon. It is said that tons of ducks are gathered daily by boys from the fences and sent to market.
Friday, December 30, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 22, 1879
They have on exhibition in St. Louis a cloak made of feathers of quail, prairie chickens, and wild ducks. There are said to be 38,880 feathers, and each feather has from five to eight stitches. It took a lady nearly seven months to make it, and she valued it at $500.
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 5, 1904
Elgin Man Dies from Blow Received in Fight with a Neighbor. Â Â Â Â Fred Harchen is dead in St. Joseph’s hospital, Elgin, as the result of a blow on the head inflicked by Charles Clarkson in a dispute over some ducks which had wandered from the land of the latter upon that owned by the former. […]
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Thursday, April 6, 1826
    A correspondent of the Missouri Republican, speaking of a hail storm on the Dardenne, says, that there were killed in one small lake or pond, upwards of five hundred wild ducks, some of them having their necks cut entirely off. What rare sport for gentleman gunners, except indeed the trouble of bagging the game.
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Friday, November 18, 1825
    Buffon, in his natural history, relates the following, as a mode by which the Chinese catch Ducks.     The duck catcher ascertains a place, in a small lake or still creek, where a flock is in the habit of swimming apparently for amusement, an hour or two each day. In this place he sets […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 13, 1874
    An ingenious Minnesota youth is to be credited with a novelty in the way of duck hunting. He lives at a beautiful spot known as Rice lake, from the wild rice growing on its margin as thick as wheat in a field. Ducks love this rice, and when they have partaken of a sufficient […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, October 7, 1922
By International News Service. Â Â Â Â Nashua, N. H., Oct. 7.-Shortly after federal inspectors dumped ten gallons of mash into the yard of JosephVegas, of this city, a flock of chickens, geese and ducks fell upon it. Â Â Â Â Soon they had been provided with enough “kick” to send them staggering about the yard. Ganders made eye […]