Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 28, 1873
Monkey Sagacity. It was a wild and dreary part of the country, in the plains of India, while journeying, that one day a friend and myself sat down under the shade of a banana tree; and were enjoying a meal of various edibles, when we were disturbed by the arrival and the noise of a […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, November 13, 1902
The African cobra is regarded somewhat reverently by the natives of that country, who once a year kill a cobra de Capello and hang its skin to the branch of a tree, tail downward. Then all the children born during the last year are brought out and made to touch the skin. This the parents […]
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Monday, July 21, 1851
The workmen on the Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad, near Beaver, recently found a petrified snake imbedded in solid limestone rock, some 60 feet below the earth’s surface. It’s size was enormous-sixteen feet in length, and in the middle at least four inches in diameter. It is said to be almost as perfect in form and […]
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, April 29, 1910
Last week when a horse belonging to E. DeMeyer of North Chicago became seriously ill and began to cough and choke it was not known what was the matter with it and as fears for death were entertained a veterinary was called. The veterinary at once said that the animal had eaten something in the […]
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, August 12, 1907
Fair Foreigner Carries Rattler and Blueberries Together. “Nice Blueberries, very cheap, only 10 cents a quart,” was the solicitation of Anna Riscavage, a buxom young foreigner, in front of a prominent residence in Centralin, Pa. The mistress of the house noticed that the berries were luscious and that only a few quarts remained in the […]
Thursday, October 20, 2016
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Thursday, June 10, 1728
A woman in France for a considerable time had a swelling in her belly without knowing the cause thereof, as feeling no pain. The physician applied several remedies to deliver her, but in vain, for it grew bigger; and in consideration of her age the Faculty of Physicians allowed her a pension to live on […]
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Tuesday, August 21, 1945
The Columbia, Va. Spy states that a little girl, about eight years of age, was killed by a snake a few days since, near Bainbridge. She was out getting blackberries and remaining a longer time than usual, search was made for her. She was found dead, with a large black snake coiled around her neck.
Saturday, October 11, 2014
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, ILinois on Friday, December 26, 1902
The leading animal dealer of this city has for some time past been in the habit of feeding his boa constrictors, ball snakes, and black snakes on white rats, rabbits and guinea pigs, animals that multiply so rapidly that this is the only means he has of disposing of those he can not sell. As […]
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, August 18, 1897
Party of Campers in the Alleghenies Kill Forty-Seven Rattlers. Miss Bella Hope, the “rattlesnake belle of the Alleghenies,” with three young women companions and two young men, went berrying in the mountains near Belefonte, Pa., Monday. At noon while eating luncheon they witnessed a desperate fight a few hundred feet distant between a wild cat […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily News, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, September 23, 1897
Kentucky Boy and His Brother Meet Horrible Death While Playing. Willie, aged seven, and Eddie, aged nine, sons of Matthew Cox, a farmer living near Mannsville, Taylor county, Ky., met terrible deaths from rattlesnake bites the other evening. They were playing hide and seek with some other children and Willie ran into the bushes and […]