Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, September 9, 1898
Peculiar American Fighting Cock Mystifies the Spaniards. Â Â Â Â Back in the ’40s a little story went the rounds of the newspapers. It was the story of the American eagle and the Spanish cock. An American ship visited one of the ports of Spain, and while lying at anchor in the harbor the officers went ashore […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, November 12, 1919
    A recent morning a Missouri farmer placed three crates of chickens and five bushels of potatoes in his trailer, hitched the trailer to his automile and started for town. He was almost there when he discovered he had no trailer. He found he had parted company with it a quarter of a mile from […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, March 4, 1904
    One day a flock of sparrows were noticed flying excitedly around a house, and going near I saw that a young sparrow had fallen from a nest under the tiles and was too young to fly back.     Suddenly a bantam cock stepped forward. He evidently understood the state of affairs, for he picked […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 25, 1905
Infuriated Fowl Tears Three-Year-Old Child’s Face With Spurs. Â Â Â Â Willie Dobson, 3 years old, was seriously hurt in Kearney, N. J., in an encounter with a rooster. The bird made savage attacks on the child and drove its spurs into his face. The attack took place in front of young Dobson’s home. The child was […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Tuesday, March 19, 1912
    “I notice in the Daily News [Chicago] of April 2 an Associated Press report from Salt Lake City, saying that Elmar Apeigren of that place has a hen that laid an egg 8 1-16 inches in circumfernce, the egg being on exhibition there. I have a hen, a rose comb Plymouth Rock, that lays […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 4, 1911
Clifton, Pa., Man Denies That He is “An Old Hen” But Admits That an Egg Placed in His Bed Became a Chick. Â Â Â Â Pittsburg, Pa.-Oscar Heinze, a farmer of Clifton, holds the human incubator record. Â Â Â Â Little did he expect when he took his bedtick to the barn recently and filled it with straw that […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, June 2, 1911
    Cincinnati, May 26.-Lockland has a human incubator in Jacob Zeitz, who after three days at the task, has added forty-two Plymouth Rock chichens to his possessions. For three days he lay in bed with sixty eggs grouped around him with a heavy blanket as covering.     Mr. Zeitz had four Plymouth Rock hens which […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 19, 1910
Spherically Shaped Egg Laid This Morning in Shape and Weight of the Regulation Tennis Ball. Â Â Â Â Fred Wilson, the 5 cent theater man on south Genesee street, and a mighty popular one at that; has a hen that is laying tennis balls and he is willing to close a contact with some big sporting goods […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, September 23, 1910
Escapes From Butcher Shop and Flies in Horses Face to Avoid Capture. Â Â Â Â A game rooster of the Philipino breed ran amuck from a local butcher shop, this morning and the fact that there are no fatalities is deemed a miracle. This game rooster was to be placed on the guillotine today and not being […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, April 23, 1906
    A late message over the Times wireless service system states that Wm. Pester recently purchased a Plymouth Rock rooster from Gus Gustafson of Hainesville, under the following conditions. If the rooster could lick Ed. Higley’s rooster, who held the welterweight championship of Miser avenue, Pester was to pay $1.50 for the bird, but if […]