Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, April 5, 1850
Wild Pigeons.-Chronicle says that, during the stay of the wild pigeons in that neighborhood, two persons caught 650 dozen of the birds. They were taken in a net.
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, October 11, 1851
Wild Pigeons have been remarkably numerous in the region of Plattsburg (New York) this season. The roost of the birds is in a forest, some six miles long and two wide, each tree containing from twenty to eighty nests. Companies of pigeon-catchers went out from Vermont, and they, with others, have sent more than one-million […]
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, February 24, 1854
A pigeon roost, ten miles long by five broad, in Franklin county, Indiana, it is said, is now swarming with pigeons. The roar of their wings on arriving and departing from the roost is tremendous, and the flocks during the flight darken the heavens. The ground is covered to the depth of several inches with […]
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, December 22, 1911
Drink Liquor Spilled in the Street and Gave Real Exhibition of Drunkenness. A heavy truck loaded high with kegs of liquor was jolting across a line of downtown car tracks when one of the kegs toppled and fell from the top of the pile into the street. It was thoroughly smashed, so the truckman whipped […]
Saturday, February 2, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, January 4, 1910
Therefore they Cannot be Entered in Show Next Week. One of the tragedies of Fowlland took place night before last when rats entered the Hutton-Totterdale coops, attacked two valuable blue magpies, killed them and ate their heads off. The magpies were registered and were to have been entered in the poultry show, hence the grief […]
Friday, December 28, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Thursday, November 28, 1844
While the ships of England and America are coursing the oceans in pursuit of guano, I would call the attention of our agriculturists, to a manure of similar origin, and possessing the same properties, that abounds in many places in their own forests; which may be had for the labor of collecting. I allude to […]
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 15, 1879
For some years the Russian army has been experimenting with passenger pigeons, and has met with much success. Something like 2,500 trained birds are now at the disposal of the military staff. The principal depot is at Warsaw, and there are stations at all the fortresses. Each station consists of several dovecots fitted up separately, […]
Friday, December 16, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 19, 1878
    Carrier pigeons have actually been caught smuggling tobacco in France. By the untimely exhaustion of one of these birds and its consequent fall into the Seine whence it was rescued, a very pretty scheme was unfolded. It seems that a single smuggler employed eighty of the little messengers to transport the fragrant weed across […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 25, 1876
    A story comes from Fairfield, Herkimer County, N. Y., of a music-loving dove. It is said that when the piano is played in the house of the dove’s owner, it will fly into the house and perch on the head of the performer, where it will remain until the piece is played, when it […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 19, 1856
    Four men caught in a net on the 7th inst in Tamarah Swamp, Bloomfield township, Ohio, eighteen hundred pigeons at one haul. Besides this, they shot during the same night, 816 more, making a total of 2,616.