Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Published in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Thursday, June 23, 1870
A lady at Beloit, Wisconsin, a few days since, found in the nest of a sitting hen four kittens who had not got their eyes open.
Friday, November 11, 2011
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Tuesday, January 16, 1872
At Dubois, recently, a shooting match took place, a head of a chicken, projecting from a box, being the target, at ten cents a pop, sixty paces. One bird brought the owner $2.30, either on account of his dodging, the smallness of his head, or the bad eye of the marksman. The game averaged 35 […]
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, December 9, 1921
Clever Woman’s Confidence in Her Pet “Biddy” Proved to Be Abundantly Justified. Â Â Â Â There was an old woman who lived not in a shoe but on a farm in New Hampshire. She made a contract to deliver two dozen fresh eggs to an anaemic family from New York who were building up on milk and […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, December 29, 1921
How Leghorn Procured a Large Family Without the Formality of Hatching Them. Â Â Â Â The fox is no cleverer than a Leghorn hen. So at least thinks one reader of the companion who has read the numerous stories that it has printed to illustrate the cleverness of foxes. To justify her opinion she tells a story […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, November 5, 1897
Only Rooster in Georgia That Has a Tombstone Over His Grave. Enlisting at Culperer, Va., He Served Under Major Williams In Many Battles. A sentinel In a Tree-How He Betrayed Jim Nessmith. Â Â Â Â “While we were camped near Culpeper Court House in the fall of 1862,” said Major Tom Williams, “I became acquainted with a […]
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Kaskaskia, Illinois on Thursday, October 23, 1817
    In page 204 vol. 111. [Memoirs of doctor Lettsom] the following curious relation is given by Bishop Madison.     In a town, this fall, among the mountains of our country, near to the place where I happened to be, a boy of 12 or 13 years of age, was bit on the side of […]
Friday, September 16, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, December 23, 1904
    Because John Davis’ chickens scratched up Mayor Murrell’s front garden the two men had a shotgun duel in the street at Church Point, La., resulting in the serious wounding of Davis and instant killing of his two-year-old son by a stray shot.
Friday, September 16, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, January 11, 1907
[From Wednesdays Sun] Â Â Â Â Yesterday the police of Waukegan shot four dogs for the crime of chicken murder. Â Â Â Â The canines had killed, maimed and mistreated chickens belonging to Louis Thewes, Miss Hill, Mrs. Rod Wells and Mrs. Fillenbeck, all of whom live on different sections of the north side, ranging from Sheridan road west […]
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, July 19, 1916
    Joliet, Ill., July 18.- Mrs. Mary Palace today asked the police to “arrest” a large rooster belonging to John Francis, a neighbor, after it had attacked her 2-year-old son, Leo, and beaten him into unconsciousness.     The boy was chasing the fowl when it suddenly turned on him with spur and beak. Leo attempted […]
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, June 1, 1908
    A hen belonging to Mrs. Al Granger, who lives some three miles northwest of Wauconda, recently laid an egg which as a curiosity breaks all previous records by a mile. The specimen measured nine inches the long way around and seven inches in circumference the other. When broken a complete egg of normal size […]