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Wild Animals In India.

Friday, April 23, 2010
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Sunday, February 1, 1880

       A writer in the Cornhill Magazine, reviewing the many good works done by the English for the people of India, notes among other things, the almost total extermination of wild animals in that country.      As the rural communities relinquished their hamlets and drew closer together toward the centre of a district, he […]

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Elephant

Monday, March 1, 2010
Published in the The Waukegan Gazette on Saturday, July 25, 1885

Published in The Waukegan Gazette on July 25, 1885.      Barnam’s elephant, Albert, which killed his keeper last Saturday, was taken to the Keene, N. H., suburbs Monday afternoon and shot, thirty-three members of a militia company firing at the beast at the same time. The remains will be sent to the Smithsonian institution at […]

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Elephant Saves a Child’s Life

Monday, March 1, 2010
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, April 24, 1896

Published by The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on April 24, 1896.      Bessie Rooney, the 10-year-old sister of Michael Rooney, the bareback rider, was about to be hugged to death by a bear the other day at Tattersall’s circus in Chicago, when Babylon, one of Ringling Brothers’ big elephants, knocked the brute down and […]

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Elephant Kills His Master

Monday, March 1, 2010
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, May 3, 1901

Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on May 3, 1901. Brute Is Then Given Strychnine and Shot to Death.      Henry Hoffman, elephant man of Benjamin Wallace’s circus, was killed by “Charlie,” a monster tusk elephant, and the beast was then put to death. Hoffman and his men had all the elephant’s in […]

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Have an Elephant Stew

Monday, March 1, 2010
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Thursday, November 13, 1919

Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on November 13, 1919.      An elephant’s foot takes longer to cook than any other meat. To make it tender it must be boiled for thirty-six hours.

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How Jumbo Lost His Life

Monday, March 1, 2010
Published in the The Waukegan Gazette on Saturday, September 26, 1885

Published in The Waukegan Gazette on September 26, 1885.      Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 18-A. Haight, of Barnum’s show said Thursday that Jumbo was killed while trying to save Tom Thumb from impending death. As Jumbo saw the train, which was only when it was close upon him, he made a rush for his protage, […]

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Jumbo Proof Against Electrocution

Monday, March 1, 2010
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Monday, November 11, 1901

Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on November 11, 1901.      Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 11.-An attempt to kill with electricity the vicious elephant Jumbo 2 was a failure here Saturday. The big brute was not “fazed by 11,000 volts-didn’t wag his ears at all.

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