Saturday, December 23, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, February 8, 1854
The Dubuque Herald states that twelve tons of Prairie Chickens were purchased at Cascade and vicinity a few days since by certain fowl speculators. It took twelve wagons to haul the birds to the railroad depot at Warren. The birds were packed in boxes without being plucked. As many as could be procured alive were […]
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, July 1, 1912
Two-Months-Old Child Seriously Hurt by Chicken that Invades House. Mount Vernon, Illinois July 1.-The two-month-old child of Mr. and Mrs. A. Potts, living at Thacher’s Gap, southeast of this city, was injured by a hen that pecked out its right eye. The child was playing on the floor and the hen wandered into the house […]
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, August 1, 1912
Duluth, Minn., Aug. 1,-Lloyd Burley, aged two years, was nearly killed by a rooster. The child was so seriously injured that it is feared that he will lose his eyesight.
Friday, December 27, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, July 23, 1853
The French feed hens with bread soaked in wine to make them lay. Soaking bread and eggs in wine in this country, often make the “old cocks lay in the gutter.” We don’t know how it would effect the hens.
Friday, December 27, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Tuesday, August 2, 1853
A few days since a gander was “on duty” near the canal basin, Albany, in keeping guard over a flock of goslings, which led to a encounter between his gandership and a rooster. The contest, however, was of short duration, for the gander seized the rooster by the neck and straightway flew into the canal, […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, September 12, 1913
Capt. A. A. Walker Locates the Leader of Chicken Thief Gang at Kenosha. Did It On Wholesale Plan. Not Contented With Taking a Few at a Time, Gang Took Up to Fifty at Once. The wholesale chicken thefts that have been so sorely perplexing Zion City people for the last few weeks have come to […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, August 15, 1907
Tale of an Egg That Has the Ordinary Fisherman’s Yarn Beaten Badly. Peoria, Ill., Aug.15.-This is not a fish story. It is the tale of an egg of tremendous size and of peculiar shape-a sort of prize box, as it were, for until the owner opened it he had no idea of the surprise that […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, November 12, 1909
Thirty chickens belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Enoch Trepanier of 1024 Jackson street were killed by a dog last night according to a police report and the canine is being hunted down.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, August 13, 1907
Bloomington, Ill., Aug. 13.-A monument is planned for a chicken belonging to O. L. McCord of Vermillion county. It has just died, aged 12 years. It was to be the champion of champions, having won first prize at eight successive state fairs and also at the Pan-American exposition.
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, May 18, 1843
A hen, belonging to Benj. Gallaway, Esq. of Weakly county, Tenn., was sometime ago bitten by a rattlesnake, but by proper attention, the wound was cured. However strange to tell, we are informed that every egg laid since that time by this hen, has a picture of a rattlesnake represented upon the shell.-Mr. Galloway, who […]