Thursday, January 17, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 2, 1878
Dr. Berthier, county physician, has at the county hospital, situated about a mile and a half east of that city, a dog of the St. Bernard breed. This dog is not yet fully grown, but it would seem, has the instincts of his breed strong within him. Last Saturday night about eight o’clock he rushed […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, April 27, 1906
Knocked down by a dog, Waldemar Bjork, of Tenth street, had the tip of his nose and one finger bitten off by the raging and frothing animal and both wounds were cauterized by Dr. Bellows late yesterday afternoon to prevent hydrophobia. The dog is noted as an ugly one, and young Bjork, with other boys, […]
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, November 24, 1832
On Saturday night, a boy of 13 or 14 years of age, who was climbing on the face of a rock, in the Grange quarry, Edinburgh, in search of a bird’s nest, fell into the deep pool below. His companions ran away calling for help and a crowd soon collected. A house carpenter who was […]
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, July 6, 1833
Perry Point, [Miss.] Dec. 3. 1833. Mr. Editor: The wild bull inhabits the forests of Washitaw, which lie on the West side of the Mississippi river, extending from the territory of Arkansas into the state of Louisiana-three hundred miles in length, from the North to South, and one hundred miles in width, from East to […]
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, September 21, 1833
Some winters back, in a part of the vast forest that stretches along the Upper Norwegian frontier, were traveling two gentlemen-one a native the other an Englishman. They had gone on many weary miles through the waste of snow and forest, when climbing a steep ascent, some two hours’ from the place of their destination, […]
Saturday, December 29, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Thursday, June 5, 1845
We see, by our French contemporary, that two Englishmen in Belgium have formed a company to run a letter express on the railroad, by harnessing greyhounds to light cars and suspending bits of meat before them by a rod extending forward from prodigious velocity, and have the advantage over engines, of giving out no cinders […]
Friday, December 28, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, August 11, 1832
The Captain of a trading vessel, who now resides at Brighton, picked up lately a dog at sea, more than twenty miles from land. This circumstance may throw some light on the fact of dogs, which have been sent to France or Ireland from England, finding their way back. The present earl of L….., sent […]
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, February 15, 1890
He would Swallow Anything That Would Ring, but Counterfeit Money Was a no go. Like Ursus and Homo, Billy and Danger were good friends. Billy Wright is a man and Danger was a dog. Billy Wright is running a saloon on Wabash avenue and Danger is dead. He was blown up in an explosion in […]
Friday, December 21, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 1, 1873
The details of the great storm in Minnesota are heart sicking. The reports from different sections indicate terrible loss of life and property. In Winnebago City fully sixty teams had gathered from the surrounding country. Farmers with their wives were there, having left their little children at home, in many instances alone, little dreaming of […]
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Wednesday, November 15, 1848
A few days since the family of Dr. Crofoot, the dentist, who resides on the corner of Crown and Temple st., missed a promising boy of the Doctor’s about four years old. After the unsuccessful search around the house, the child was finally found, drenched and in a state of insensibility on the edge of […]