Saturday, October 20, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, August 10, 1837
A friend from the country, says the Portland Argus, upon whose veracity unlimited reliance can be placed, has furnished us with the following facts: A neighbor of his, in pitching out his hay last month, found the body of a hen, very much compressed, which must have been under the hay since July, 1836, when […]
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, September 19, 1921
An English farmer was recently hauled into court and fined on the charge of keeping a place for the purpose of cock fighting, but he made the defense that the sport as indulged in at his place was not an offense within the law, as the birds fought with boxing gloves instead of spurs.
Monday, September 24, 2012
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, June 23, 1888
The two and one-half year old daughter of Thomas Barrett is lying ill at her father’s house, No. 51 Ohio street, from the effects of an attack made on her Thursday afternoon by a game chicken, the property of Patrick Crowley. Little Sarah, while playing in the backyard, saw the vicious little gamecock fly over […]
Monday, September 17, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, March 13, 1876
Mr. Thomas J. Roach of San Jose, California, reports having purchased several months ago, a lot of fine cropple-crowns which he kept aloof from his less aristocratic fowls, in a small yard. The chief of his family was a large, black bird of an exceeding haughty disposition. He was monarch of all he surveyed till […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 27, 1877
Gilbert White tells a most dramatic story of a neighbor who had lost most of his chickens by a sparrow-hawk that came gliding down between a faggot pile and the end of his house, to the place where his coop stood. The owner, vexed to see his flock diminishing hung a net between the pile […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 28, 1878
    It is a remarkable fact, says the London Times, that a taste for gaming appears in some cases to pervade a whole people, and to become one of the chief national characteristics. Nowhere is this more manifest than among the inhabitants of the Asiatic Islands. Games of hazard are the favorites of these islanders. […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, April 5, 1907
    A hen belonging to Chas. Woolridge of Libertyville is an ardent disciple of the frenzied life. Twice recently she has laid eggs with three complete yolks inside. The eggs, nearly six inches long, measure over a foot in circumference measuring around the tips.     All the hens in the neighboring henneries have given up […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, January 30, 1912
Several women injured as Result of Scramble for Strickly New Produce. Â Â Â Â Superior, Wis.,-Jan. 30.-An auction of several dozen fresh eggs caused such a scramble of women that many suffered pulled hair, torn clothing, and bruises. Â Â Â Â Some even climbed to the windows of the building where the eggs were being sold. The eggs were […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 10, 1880
Springfield [Mass.] Republican. Â Â Â Â Mrs. Augustus Brooks, of East Eliot, Conn., has a cat thirteen years old, which will stand up when ordered, bow quickly or slowly, as directed, walk around the room on her hind legs only, dance, turn somersaults, go through the motions of holding a jew’s-harp in her mouth with one paw […]
Friday, December 16, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 5, 1878
    “Old Frank” is a hunting dog that used to hang around the newspaper offices of St. Joseph, Mo. Mr. Joseph Crane took “Old Frank” to his house. Mr. Crane had an old hen, with seven or eight chickens that had been hatched out a couple weeks. For some cause the unnatural mother deserted her […]