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The King Snake’s Dinner

Sunday, April 18, 2010
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, July 18, 1922

Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on July 18, 1922. A “Companion boy” who lived in Missouri, and who has been reading the paper since he was a little shaver, writes to tell us what he knows about the cannibalistic habits of snakes. As my brother and I were cocking hay in a […]

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Her Pets Are Rattlesnakes.

Sunday, April 18, 2010
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, January 10, 1896

Punlished in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on January 10, 1896. A little Dakota girl who has a strange fondness for reptiles.      The librarian on Congress recently received from an artist at Hot Springs, S. D., a photograph of Martha McIntyre, an 8-year-old child, who from her infancy has had rattlesnakes for pets. […]

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Taking The Rattle Out Of Rattlesnake

Sunday, April 18, 2010
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Tuesday, January 17, 1922

Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on January 17, 1922.      In a combat between a diamond rattlesnake and a blue racer, the latter was victorious over his more virulent adversary. During the fight, reports a writer in Science, the racer was badly bitten by the rattler; whereupon the former worked his way […]

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Combat between a hawk and a snake

Monday, March 1, 2010
Published in the The Waukegan Gazette on Wednesday, November 19, 1862

Published in The Waukegan Gazette on November 19, 1862 We have been informed of a singular combat that took place in Pelham, N. H., a few days since, between a hawk and a black snake. Mr. Tristam F. Palmer, while walking in a field in Pelham, came upon a hawk and a black snake in […]

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