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A Grand Hunt.

Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Friday, April 27, 1877

  Reading [Pa.] Eagle.      Bradford is now one of the largest and most populous counties in Pennsylvania. The Bucks are a ruling family here. When the Buck’s, the grandfathers of the present generation, came here the place was literally a howling wilderness. Wolves in great droves hunted almost every other living thing.      About […]

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Fierce Fight In A Menagerie

Saturday, May 1, 2010
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, June 26, 1903

Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 06/26/1903. Lion named Roosevelt Fatally Wounded At Springfield Carnival.      A desperate battle among a cage full of lions and tigers was an unexpected feature of the animal show given in connection with the Gaskill Munday Carnival Company’s shows in Springfield. After a terrible fight, witnessed […]

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Two Remarkable Women.

Saturday, April 24, 2010
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune on Sunday, June 11, 1876

  The Philadelphia Times describes a couple of remarkable women who are connected with the centennial Exhibition. One of these is Miss Emma Allison, of Ontario, who has the entire charge of the Baxter portable engine of six-horse power. She is by no means a soot-be-grimed and oil-covered amazon, but, on the contrary, of neat, […]

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The Diseases Of Wild Animals

Saturday, April 24, 2010
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, November 1, 1879

  The Diseases Of Wild Animals. While First Surgeon of the thirty-first Regiment of the line, then stationed at Alabers, in Algeria. I dissected the carcasses of about fifty lions. The lungs of twenty of them were affected; one half of them were almost gone, showing that consumption [tuberculosis] is prevalent among the lions of […]

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Boa Swallows A Young Lion.

Saturday, April 24, 2010
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, August 20, 1897

  But Help Came, the Cub Was Rescued and the Boa Was Slain.      A boa constrictor will swallow anything at all when it wakes up hungry and finds that dinner is not ready. This is the story of a boa which swallowed a cub lion whole. The cub was recovered by an operation, but […]

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Fatal Snakes and Beasts in India.

Friday, April 23, 2010
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, March 4, 1898

       Wild animals and snakes in India seem to kill more human beings than all our punitive expeditions taken together. The statistics of the loss of  human life and cattle by wild animals and venomous snakes in the Central provinces of India have been issued. Although the totals show some decrease from last year, […]

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Wild Animals In India.

Friday, April 23, 2010
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Sunday, February 1, 1880

       A writer in the Cornhill Magazine, reviewing the many good works done by the English for the people of India, notes among other things, the almost total extermination of wild animals in that country.      As the rural communities relinquished their hamlets and drew closer together toward the centre of a district, he […]

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Hunting

Monday, March 1, 2010
Published in the The Waukegan Gazette on Saturday, March 13, 1880

Published in The Waukegan Gazette on March 13, 1880.      A Georgia man fired seven shots at a wild cat, killed his dog, wounded a farmer in the leg, and put out one of his own eyes out. The wild cat escaped.

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