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Eagle Cut The Rope.

Saturday, June 12, 2010
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, June 20, 1907

Hurled Down 600 Foot Cliff Man Who Stole Young.      Frank Schreiber of Colorado Springs, Colo., was recently badly injured as a result of a fight with a mother eagle whose young he stole from a nest on the side of a precipice 600 feet from the valley below.      Schreiber discovered the nest in […]

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A Queer Contest.

Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, February 16, 1894

Published in The Lake County Independent on 02/16/1894. An Eagle, a Coyote and a Fish Get Mixed Up in a Lively Scrap.      A curious contest was witnessed by some Texas cowboys recently between a coyote, a catfish and an eagle. The fish was swimming downstream making his way through shallow water to deeper pools. […]

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Bald Eagle

Friday, March 26, 2010
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, February 22, 1901

Published on February 22, 1901 in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois.      A bald eagle tried to carry off the 5-year-old boy of John Bullock, living in Illinois opposite Mount Vernon, Ind. The child was in the yard playing when attacked by the eagle. The mother heard the child’s scream and ran from the house and […]

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Kill Cows; Carry Away Dog

Monday, March 1, 2010
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Tuesday, July 26, 1904

Published on August 26, 1904 in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois.      Three eagles attacked and killed a cow belonging to Aaron Whitsoh of Garden City, Kan. They also picked up and carried about twenty-five yards a dog that weighed thirty-five pounds.

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The Waukegan Gazette

Monday, March 1, 2010
Published in the The Waukegan Gazette on Saturday, February 28, 1874

Published in The Waukegan Gazette on February 28, 1874. An eagle recently attemped to carry off a girl fourteen years old. The bird found its prey too heavy to raise more than four or five feet from the ground and finally droped her. The girl was terribly lacerated by the talons of the eagle.

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Eagle

Monday, March 1, 2010
Published in the The Waukegan Gazette on Saturday, May 21, 1881

Published in The Waukegan Gazette on May 21, 1881.      An eagle was shot in Lapland on the neck of which was a brass chain with a small tin-box attached. This box contained a slip of paper on which was written in Danish: “Caught and set free again in 1792 by N. and C. Anderson, […]

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