Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, July 22, 1918
Boa Gulps Down Companion as Both Are Endeavoring to Feast on the Same Live Pigeon. Â Â Â Â A snake’s method of swallowing is almost automatic; the internal mechanism begins its work as soon as the reptile takes the food into its mouth. In his book, “Of Distinguished Animals,” Mr. H. Perry Robinson relates an extraordinary incident […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, September 21, 1922
South African Native Surely Exercised Some Kind of Influence Over Big Python. Â Â Â Â Many powers are said to be possessed by the African native which those of the Occident find hard to credit. Here is a story of “Muti,” or hypnosis, as performed, according to a reliable inforant, upon a hude python. The narrator says: […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 4, 1874
    Deacon Chas. W. Guilbert, furnishes the Galesburg Free Press the following cure for the bite of a rattlesnake.     About 37 years ago I arrived in Galesburg. At that time there was a great many rattlesnakes. I used to kill thirty or forty every year. A few years after my arrival two little boys […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, July 16, 1908
Terrifying Experience With a Deadly Lancehead. Â Â Â Â The Paris Eclair tells a blood curdling serpent story, the scene of which was the island of Martinque and the dramatis personne Sergent Legrand and Private Durand and the snake a deadly lancehead. Â Â Â Â The soldier had been punished with a night in the cells for some trivial […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, July 16, 1908
Instrument Proves Incubator For Rattlers-Followers of a Superstitious Theory Almost Create Panic at Church Concert. Â Â Â Â Residents of Sparrow Bush, four miles from Port Jervis, N. J., got the inside facts from Gene Tisdell why he dropped his fiddle at the church concert in Lifting Rocks just as he was about to play “Pop Goes […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 2, 1878
    A man in Rockland, Me., lately dug out of one hole fifty-five snakes and six full-grown skunks-Boston Post.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, September 10, 1823
     Snakes are being kept to catch rats in Sawtelle, Cal. Like keeping mosquitoes to catch flies.
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Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, July 27, 1894
    The big snake which is said to exist in the neighborhood of Carter’s Lake, Barry County, Mich., and known as “Carter’s snake,” has been seen again, this time by Henry Marble. The snake is variously reported as fifteen to twenty feet long. Marble was terrified and went to Sexton McElwain’s with his horse on […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 5, 1904
 Little Boy Has Exciting Encounter With Vicious Animal.       Perry Maxfield of Bloomfield, N. J., brother of Theodore Todd Maxfield, a well-known horseman, and nephew of Thomas Oakes, millionaire cloth manufacturer of Bloomfield, had an exciting encounter with a wild cat at Nashua, Fla. Maxfield was severely clawed by the animal, and his hunting […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, August 19, 1907
    Thomas Jefferies, member of the Rough Rider club of Cincinnati, who had been camping on the Ohio river near Lawrenceburg, Ind., got up in the night and took a drink from a spring near by. This was at 1 o’clock, and in a few minutes after he retired he awoke his companions with his groans. […]