Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun on Friday, April 23, 1897
Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun on April 23, 1897. Hatfield-McCoy Vendetta Is Declared Off After Fifteen Years. Â Â Â Â The bloodest feud that ever made life in the south uncertain has come to a close. The Hatfield-McCoy vendetta has been nullified by the marriage of Aaron Hatfield and Mary McCoy. Five dollars worth of mountain […]
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, November 26, 1897
Published in The Lake County Independent on November 26, 1897. Â Â Â Â At Milan, Mo., Thomas Epperson of Lancaster, while attemping to load hogs, was bitten through the thigh, severing an artery. He bled to death in thirty minutes.
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, March 1, 1895
Published in The Lake County Independent on March 1, 1895. Â Â Â Â An unheard-of procedure on the part of feeders of swine is being practiced by some farmers around Bowen. They are buying plug horses and feeding them to hogs. John Mark has fed to his hogs about sixty-horses, and Jess Find, another hog raiser, has […]
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Monday, August 18, 1919
Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on August 18, 1919. Â Â Â Â Pana, Ill. Aug. 17.-Finding that his second clover crop was being destroyed by grasshoppers, Cyrus W. Rayhill spent $19 to build a grasshopper trap. Last week he caught eighteen bushels of grasshoppers. He dried the insects and fed them to the hogs […]
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 29, 1913
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on August 29, 1913. Â Â Â Â A Geary county [Kas.] farmer built a “hog-tight” fence around his feed lot just before he received a big shipment of Arkansas “razorbacks.” The next morning the hogs were scattered all over the county. It was found that most of them could […]
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Friday, November 3, 1922
Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on November 3, 1922. Â Â Â Â Wives in New Guinea have a miserable time. It is true they have a high value-sometimes as many as seven pigs are paid for a wife. But the wives are badly treated and often are killed for minor offenses. Yet, strange to […]
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Saturday, August 12, 1922
Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on August 12, 1922. Â Â Â Â Frogmore, La. 12-When quail season rolls around, Colonel Tucker Gibson shoulders his shotgun and takes in leash Betsy, America’s only hunting hog. Â Â Â Â And he comes home with his game bag filled. Â Â Â Â Betsy, four-year-old offspring of a common southern razorback hog, […]
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune on Sunday, June 22, 1879
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune on June 22, 1879 Dangers to Life and Limb incident to the Highway. Proportionately More Killed and Wounded than on Railroads. In Seven Weeks 59 Runaways, 44 Persons Injured, and five Killed. Â Â Â Â Few people have any conception of the infinite risk and danger to which are subject from […]
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, February 8, 1901
 Residents of Minneapolis driven to trees by the animals.     Timber Wolves are causing a reign of terror in the northeastern portion of Minneapolis, where several of the brutes have been killed during the last few days. The animals have been driven in from the outlaying districts by hunger and several persons out late […]