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The Spider Was His Mascot.

Thursday, March 1, 2018
Published in the The Evanston Index, Evanston, Illinois on Saturday, January 28, 1899

Major Laurie, who fought with Kitchener in the Soudan, says he owes his life to a spider. The spider made a nest in the top of his helmet just before the battle at Athbara. He recognised at once that the spider had chosen to constitute itself his mascot. Accordingly he left the insect undisturbed, and […]

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A Novel Fight.

Thursday, January 5, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 1, 1879

      A New Orleans gentleman tells the following curious anecdote. In Natchitoches parish, a pedestrian noticed on a lonely road a frog fighting desperately with a tarantula and the taratula returned the compliment by stinging the frog. Every time the frog got stung he would hop to the side of the road, where some green […]

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Eats Spiders To Die.

Thursday, October 20, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, October 21, 1898

Woman Borgia Emulates the Fate of Egypt’s Queen.      Cora Smith, whose death took place at Anamosa, Iowa, penitentiary Monday killed herself by eating spiders. A paper bag partially full of the insects was found in her cell and an examination of her stomach showed that the poison from the insects caused her death. She […]

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Snake

Sunday, September 4, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Saturday, October 7, 1826

     On Friday last, [1st inst.] a spider was discovered by the workmen in the Rock Creek Mill, apparently in contact with a small black snake, about 9 inches long. When first discovered, the snake was snapping at the spider, and at each snap or jump of the snake, the spider lapt his web round […]

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Spider’s.

Friday, July 8, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 16, 1877

     An extraordinary trial is about to take place before a Parisian tribunal. A jealous husband in the village of Carrieres fell upon a novel mode of punishing his wife for her flirtations by compelling her to swallow a live spider every Monday morning. After submitting for a time, she informed the police, and the […]

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