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Ducks do his angling – With line and hook to their legs, they bring in fish from lake

Monday, March 1, 2010
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Wednesday, October 4, 1916

Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette Published: October 4, 1916 Leitchfield, Ky.-Henry Cecil of Cecilia in a lake near his home has devised a most successful and novel way to catch fish, according to Roy Bond. Cecil has a number of ducks that frequent this lake. He ties a short fishing line to the duck’s foot […]

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Get Ducks Drunk; Bag Many Easily

Monday, March 1, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Friday, November 24, 1922

Waukegan News Sun Published: November 24, 1922 Milford, Ind. Nov. 24-Scores of wild ducks are being bagged here by a few Kosciusko county hunters, who use a new method of obtaining the game. According to one hunter, he places corn which has been soaked for a long period, in moonshine liquor, on the banks of […]

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The Waukegan Gazette

Monday, March 1, 2010
Published in the The Waukegan Gazette on Saturday, October 22, 1870

published October 22, 1870 by The Waukegan Gazette.      Four hundred and fifty ducks were killed at Grass lake last week by the Nippersink club. The members of this club returned to town on Saturday last.

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Owl put up good fight

Monday, March 1, 2010
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Wednesday, April 5, 1922

Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on April 5, 1922.      The ferocity of the white owl is well known. A hunter shot a mallard that fell upon land and on going to retrieve his prize, found the wounded bird had been attacked by an Arctic owl, whose wing spread was six feet. […]

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A professional hunter

Monday, March 1, 2010
Published in the The Waukegan Gazette on Saturday, January 19, 1867

Punlished in the Waukegan Gazette on January 19, 1867      A professional hunter, living in Peoria county has killed, this season, twenty-seven hundred and seventy three ducks, mostly mallards, eighteen geese, twelve brant, seventeen wild turkeys, nine prairie chickens, and three quails.

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