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Monthly Archives: March 2010

Destructive Fire At Moline

Published in The Waukegan Gazette on January 2, 1858      The village of Moline, on the Rock Island, R. R., was visited by a very destructive fire last week, making the second which has occured there within a month. The last fire destroyed about 25,000 worth of property, consisting of stores, offices, etc. Mr. Jacob […]

Monkey puts out a fire

Waukegan Daily Sun Published: January 1, 1899 Mrs. Peter Minetti of Belleville owns a monkey and confines it in a wire cage. The other day Mrs. Minetti put some fresh coal in the grate fire, locked up the house and went to visit some friends. A lump of burning coal fell to the floor and […]

Horse Beats Off Wolves.

       Details of a ferocious attack of a pack of wolves upon Linley, the 12-year-old son of F. M. Bane, a tenant farmer living near the Kansas line, reached Mattoon the other day. Young Bane at dusk rode on horsrback to bring home the cows. As he passed a small grove fourteen grey wolves, […]

Pet Dogs Of Berliners

Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on June 30, 1922. Pet dogs have become so popular among the feminine population of Berlin that theater managers have been compelled to install rooms where the dogs may be checked. Some patrons complain that none of the theaters has made similar provision for checking babies, and […]

Dogs

Published in The Waukegan Gazette on July 17, 1869.      The Bloomington Reader says Dr. Harrison Noble, of Heyworth, in McLean county, had 80 sheep killed and 170 mortally wounded the other night by two dogs. The dogs would catch the sheep by the neck and hold them down until dead, or nearly so. When […]

Have an Elephant Stew

Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on November 13, 1919.      An elephant’s foot takes longer to cook than any other meat. To make it tender it must be boiled for thirty-six hours.

Hissing For Dogs

Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on March 20, 1922.      Indians are very fond of dogs, and around every wigwam, tepee, hut, or wherever they reside, there are always from 6 to 20 wolfish dogs. An Indian dog loves an Indian and hates a white man with equal intensity. When a white […]

Lumberman Eaten by Wolves.

       News has come from Gilmour and Houston’s lumber camp at Bark Lake on the Gatineau that Edward Connor, 18 years old, a lumberman, had been eaten by wolves.

“BOB” Burton’s Bull Pup Dies

Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on August 16, 1922. There is mourning at the home of A. J. Burton Waukegan’s laundryman. “BOB” the bull pup, who had made his home there for six years, has gone to his reward. Sickness cut “BOB” down in the flower of his youth the dog being […]

How Jumbo Lost His Life

Published in The Waukegan Gazette on September 26, 1885.      Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 18-A. Haight, of Barnum’s show said Thursday that Jumbo was killed while trying to save Tom Thumb from impending death. As Jumbo saw the train, which was only when it was close upon him, he made a rush for his protage, […]