Saturday, October 22, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 28, 1857
    As the flies will be upon us before long, it may be interesting to know that although the butcher shops at Geneva are all open, and immense numbers of flies may be seen on the outside walls, not one comes in. This is caused by the inner walls being rubbed over with laurel oil, […]
Friday, September 30, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Monday, June 28, 1909
    ‘During the lumbering operations in the Canadian backwoods in the winter,” said a lumberman, “the French workmen-you know the French eat cocks’ combs and snails and skate-season their beans and bacon with ant sauce. Nearly every tree that falls, you know, discovers a great colony of red or brown ants. These, the French woodmen […]
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 2, 1912
Lake Forest Fixes Rate Five Times Higher as That Set by St. Louis. Town Gives This Reason For Generous Inducement to Successful Swatters. Â Â Â Â Flies were quoted Friday on the Lake Forest board at 50 cents a pint. Â Â Â Â It is merely a question of supply and demand with Lake Forest. That city claims the […]
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, June 17, 1915
Local People Are Acting on the Suggestion of City Physician Dr. Foley. Many Swatters Are Used. Scores of People Are Getting After the Places Where the Flies Are Breeding. Â Â Â Â This is “Fly Swatting” week and from all accounts the pests are suffering heavy losses at the hands of Waukegan people. Â Â Â Â Before leaving today […]
Friday, September 16, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, September 1, 1905
Interfere with Street Cars and Put Women in Panic at Omaha. Â Â Â Â A plague of crickets has swept down on Omaha and has made life a burden to the inhabitants. The insects appeared suddenly by the millions. Falling on the street car track and being crushed by the wheels, they so greased the rails that […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, August 12, 1907
    Bridget Collins, eighty years old, who wondered from her home in the Bronx, New York city, was found in a swamp ten miles away half buried in mud and almost eaten alive by mosquitoes. Mounted Policeman Flynt was riding past the swamp when some boys called his attention to what appeared to be a […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, July 15, 1907
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois, on 07/15/1907.     Port Arthur, Ont., July 15.-The Lake Superior limited on the Canada Northern railway had a peculiar experience near Kashabowie, where a cloud of moths was encountered, obscuring the view and covering the tracks so deeply that the train was stalled. It took the train crew […]
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, September 23, 1876
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune on 09/23/1876. Â Â Â Â The Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club has the following remarkable ancedote’ of the intelligence of a crow: A tame crow [Corvus Americanus] in my possession has repeatly amused me by the the novel method he adopts to rid himself of parasites. For this purpose he […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, May 29, 1903
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois, on 05/29/1903. 1,500,000 Lost in State of Montana Since Last December. Â Â Â Â Statistics compiled by President T. C. Power, of the Montana board of sheep commissioners fixes the total number of sheep lost in the recent blizzard at 900,000. Up to the time of the storm 600,000 […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, October 9, 1903
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 10/09/1903. Â Â Â Â Henri Choupin, a French naturalist, draws attention to the fact that animals as a rule are wonderfully neat and far excel human beings in this respect. It has taken men, he says, several centuries to learn the virtues of neatness and cleanliness, whereas animals […]