Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, May 19, 1911
    Twenty years of hard labor in the Chester penitentiary for the theft of eighteen chickens was the unusual punishment meted out by a jury in the Mattoon circuit court to Ora Brady, alias Blondin, a former resident of Iroquois County and an all around criminal.     The sentence is unusual because of its severity […]
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Saturday, August 25, 1827
From the Scoharie Republican. Â Â Â Â A few days since, a farmer in the town of Jefferson, observed his dunghill cock engaged in mortal combat with a stripped snake of about 18 or 20 inches in length, the cock to all appearance, having the decided advantage, over his more wily though less nervous adversary, dealing his […]
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Published in the Belvidere Standard, Belvidere, Illinois on Tuesday, July 16, 1861
A pretty little bantam was recently thrown into the cage of one of the tigers domiciled in the managerie of the Jardin des Plantes. Â It was designed to sharpen his appetite for some blocks of meat which he had declined to eat. Â Not in the least alarmed by his terrible roars, bantam advanced with the […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, December 3, 1914
Dr. O. N. Smith of This City has Hen That Can Whip any Rooster, He Declares. Will Make Wager On It. States That He Will Bet any Amount That Hen Will Score Victory Over Rooster. Â Â Â Â Dr. O. N. Smith of Waukegan, the well known veterinarian is generally known as being level headed. His cranium […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, October 7, 1922
By International News Service. Â Â Â Â Nashua, N. H., Oct. 7.-Shortly after federal inspectors dumped ten gallons of mash into the yard of JosephVegas, of this city, a flock of chickens, geese and ducks fell upon it. Â Â Â Â Soon they had been provided with enough “kick” to send them staggering about the yard. Ganders made eye […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, July 12, 1923
By International News Service. Â Â Â Â Cleveland, O., Dec. 19.-Loss estimated at $150,000 was caused by fire which destroyed a building occupied by five commission houses. Thirty-six hundred fowls were burned.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, January 30, 1922
Miss Agnes Schshinnskey painfully injured in battle with chanticleer. Â Â Â Â Miss Agnes Schshinnskey, employed in George’s Cafe, this morning had a terrific battle with a rooster which pounced upon her when she removed from a chicken coop a hen. The chanticleer hurled its eight pounds of fury at Miss Schshinnskey, striking her in the face, […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, April 6, 1922
    Roosters have different tactics when fighting and often display considerable brainwork. Recently, in a Cuban rooster fight, where a little rooster was pitted against a big fellow, the little bird looked at his antagonist and started to run around and around, with the big rooster after him. Then, when the big bird was out […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 15, 1871
    Two women in Staunton, Ind., got into a fight about an egg that a hen of one of the women laid in the barn of the other. Then their sons engaged in the melee, and before it ended one of the women had her back broken by a stroke from a club, and will […]
Published in the Belvidere Standard, Belvidere, Illinois on Tuesday, July 29, 1862
    The Boston Journal Says;-We can vouch for the truth of the following; A friend who keeps poultry, had two hens which insisted upon sitting upon one nest. The result was not altogether favorable, although, after a while, the bipeds managed to divide the eggs. Only one chicken was hatched from the whole nest full. […]