Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, April 23, 1906
    A late message over the Times wireless service system states that Wm. Pester recently purchased a Plymouth Rock rooster from Gus Gustafson of Hainesville, under the following conditions. If the rooster could lick Ed. Higley’s rooster, who held the welterweight championship of Miser avenue, Pester was to pay $1.50 for the bird, but if […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, April 23, 1906
Wagon Smashed and Two Horses Belonging to Bert Stevens Killed at Spring Grove in Fierce Dash of Two frightened Animals Down Road to structure. Â Â Â Â A serious accident happened in Spring Grove Saturday which cost the lives of two valuable horses belonging to Bert Stevens. Â Â Â Â The affair was a double runaway. A team belonging […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, March 16, 1906
    One of the most fantastic of birds is the laughing owl of Florida and some other southern parts. He sits well up in a tree at night and emits a series of loud, strange ha-ha’s that sound like half human laughter. The sound is sufficiently terrifying to a nervous camper unacquainted with the habit […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, March 15, 1906
 The Art of Angling is as Old as the Human Race.     The art of angling no doubt had its origin in man’s necessities. The earliest record of mankind makes reference to the taking of fish for food. There are frequent allusions to it in the Bible. Job, in the oldest book of all, […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, March 13, 1906
    The golden eagle sometimes captures ptarmigan almost it seems for the mere pleasure of doing so, and then has a little game with its luckless prey. Soaring to a great height it drops the ptarmigan from its talons and soars away as if paying no attention to its then, suddenly swooping earthwards with terrific […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, August 13, 1907
    Two unknown parties driving from Chicago to Long Grove left a horse to die by the roadside near the Hanson farm, about three and one-half miles from Libertyville, Thursday.     The horse had been driven until it dropped in the harness and the men who were driving did nothing more than secure a new […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, January 3, 1906
    Novel sport was witnessed at Wauconda on New Year’s day, the residents of that locality who have racing horses, having them sharp shod and going onto Bangs’ lake where they had races. The novel sport attracted much attention and many persons saw the races which were fast and close.     The Sun’s Wauconda correspondent […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, October 17, 1922
Mrs. Mary Guerin Attacked by Infuriated Animal Which Broke Thru Fence. Dog Battled With Cow. Â Â Â Â Trampled under the hoofs of an infuriated cow, Mrs. Mary Guerin, who makes her home with her brother, John Rahling, at Wadsworth, was saved from death by Rahling’s dog, which attacked the cow and after a terrific battle between […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 17, 1885
 [San Francisco Alta.]     Any one of a logical turn of mind who had been present upon the sea-wall the other afternoon would most surely have been convinced of the fact that the dog is the smartest animal of the brute creation. A small dog fell from the stringer of the wharf into the […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 19, 1874
    A gentleman on a visit to Scotland, came across some men who were washing sheep. Close to the water where the operation was being carried on was a small pen, in which a detachment of ten sheep were placed handy to the men for washing. While watching the performance his attention was called to […]