Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Friday, November 24, 1922
Waukegan News Sun Published: November 24, 1922 Milford, Ind. Nov. 24-Scores of wild ducks are being bagged here by a few Kosciusko county hunters, who use a new method of obtaining the game. According to one hunter, he places corn which has been soaked for a long period, in moonshine liquor, on the banks of […]
Published in the The Waukegan Gazette on Saturday, September 29, 1860
Published in The Waukegan Gazette on September 29, 1860. Cats are in demand at Pike’s Peak, as mice are plenty, though rats are not known in this part of the country. Cats sell at a high price. Indians are said to be very fond of them, and have been known to give three or four […]
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Monday, November 11, 1901
Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on November 11, 1901.     Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 11.-An attempt to kill with electricity the vicious elephant Jumbo 2 was a failure here Saturday. The big brute was not “fazed by 11,000 volts-didn’t wag his ears at all.
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, December 14, 1900
     Two children named Bertrand, brother and sister, met a horrible death at Englishman’s River, on the northern British Columbia coast. They were attacked and killed by wolves.
Published in the The Waukegan Gazette on Saturday, October 22, 1870
published October 22, 1870 by The Waukegan Gazette. Â Â Â Â Four hundred and fifty ducks were killed at Grass lake last week by the Nippersink club. The members of this club returned to town on Saturday last.
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Monday, January 23, 1922
Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on January 23, 1922. Two young men living near Libertyville are overcome by the fumes. One Brought To Hospital. Â Â Â Â The barking of a dog resulted in saving the lives of two young men near Libertyville early Saturday morning after they had been overcome by gas. Had […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Thursday, December 7, 1922
Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on December 7, 1922. Â Â Â Â Chicago, Dec. 7-An airdale pup helped his master, Casimer Kawecki in an attack upon two bandits who held up the Kawecki drug store here early today. Â Â Â Â The dog bit one of the bandits while Kawecki fired six shots after them as […]
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, September 3, 1909
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois, on September 3, 1909. Â Â Â Â A spirit of affection or whatever it may be termed, took place a few days ago at the corner of Grand avenue and North Genesee street. It seems that an auto in its wild speed ran over and killed a Spitz dog […]
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Wednesday, April 5, 1922
Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on April 5, 1922. Â Â Â Â The ferocity of the white owl is well known. A hunter shot a mallard that fell upon land and on going to retrieve his prize, found the wounded bird had been attacked by an Arctic owl, whose wing spread was six feet. […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily-Sun and Gazette on Tuesday, December 26, 1922
Published in The Waukegan Daily-Sun and Gazette on December 26, 1922. Â Â Â Â With his dog as sole companion, little eight-year-old Johnny Miller for three weeks slept in abandoned water tanks on the roofs of New York tenements and lived on bits of food offered by his school chums. His father was killed and his stepmother […]