Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, December 3, 1897
    A 500 pound sea turtle, 14 years old, was captured and killed in Chicago harbor by two fishermen. Old lake men say this is the first sea turtle that has ever reached the southern end of Lake Michigan of its own volition.
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, March 9, 1894
The stomach of a dead ostrich at the zoo of Clifton, England, contained a prayer book, a pencil case and two handkerchiefs. A Georgia man killed a snapping turtle and ate it after throwing the head over into the back yard. A few days after the turtle’s head caught a chicken and held it until […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, October 22, 1897
    Several fishermen at Highland Lake, near Middletown, N. Y., had an exciting experience with two immense snapping turtles recently. The turtles were engaged in a deadly combat fifty feet from shore and the men attempted to take them with hook and line. The fishermen summoned two companions to aid them, but the turtles fought […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, June 7, 1901
    The pickpocket who tried to “pinch” a likely looking man’s pocketbook and found his fingers in the grasp of two snapping turtles was a Japanese. A native traveler in Japan had bought the turtles, and, being afraid that he would be charged heavily for their transportation as live animals on the train, he placed […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, November 14, 1885
    [Wong Chin Foo in Chicago News.]     Turtle fighting is very common in the east, and I am surprised the sport has not been introduced into this country. It’s quiet, nice, and very satisfactory. Two kinds of the reptiles are good for fighting-the mud turtle and the snapper. The latter is quicker and more […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 27, 1878
Seventy-five Turtles Clawing and Chawing Each Other for an Hour. Â Â Â Â The seventy-five turtles in the fountain basin near the Fourth avenue entrance to Gilmore’s Garden, had a battle yesterday morning. Such was never seen before. At least seventy-five lay together in an apparently inextricable mass on the bottom of the basin. Two dead turtles […]
Sappho Turtle, Jailed for “No Soup” 12 Years Ago, Found Under City Scales. Soup For Firemen. Â Â Â Â Police records from the dim ages past, dim because they are 12 years old, were exhumed today in the search for the history of Sappho, the snapping turtle that was dug out of the mud underneath the old […]
Friday, September 16, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, June 23, 1905
    While fishing near Carmi, Jasper Jamerson caught a turtle and, tangling it in the air, dared his companion, Tom Hobbs, to shoot it off the line. Hobbs fired, the rifle ball striking the turtle’s shell and glancing through Jamerson’s face, caused probably fatal injuries.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Saturday, December 8, 1827
    This highly prized aquatic production, when caught by the eastern islanders, is suspended over a fire, kindled immediately after its capture, until such time as the effect of the heat looses the shell to such a degree that it can be removed with the greatest ease. The animal, now stript and defenceless, is set […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, March 5, 1906
 Methods Used by the Fishermen of the Tropics.     Turtles are always captured at night and usually on moonlight ones. This is the time they go on the shore to lay their eggs. They select a smooth, sandy beach, dig holes in the sand, deposit their eggs there and leave them to be hatched […]