Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Sunday, September 14, 1879
    Neapolitan milkmen are very funny fellows. They do not have a milkwagon and horse or even a pail and dipper. They have only little three-legged stools tied to themselves [so that when they want to sit down they are all ready,] and they drive their goats and cows before them to the different houses, […]
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, November 29, 1879
A combat on the margin of the sea between Spain’s favorite and monsterous octopi. Tokeo [Japan] Times. Â Â Â Â The story given below was communicated by a correspondent; “The author of “Schuykidan” who lived some sixty years ago, was once traveling in Mutta, one of the northern provinces. Walking one day near the beach he heard […]
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, November 10, 1921
Bossy got stuck fifteen feet below surface; Wilson & Ohm to rescue. Wrecker Pulls Her Out. Â Â Â Â Tony Nanjdaus, a farmer living on Telegraph road, six miles south of Waukegan, whose bossy cow tried to get a drink at the original source of supply, brought upon him alot of trouble Monday. The cow slipped into […]
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, November 13, 1922
    Two carloads of cattle bound for the stock yards were burned to death or shot to end their sufferings following a train wreck at Cary, Ill., thirty miles from Chicago, Sunday night. Two men were slightly injured.     A milk train on the Northwestern railroad, running ten miles an hour, struck the stock train, […]
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, July 27, 1894
    The big snake which is said to exist in the neighborhood of Carter’s Lake, Barry County, Mich., and known as “Carter’s snake,” has been seen again, this time by Henry Marble. The snake is variously reported as fifteen to twenty feet long. Marble was terrified and went to Sexton McElwain’s with his horse on […]
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, July 27, 1894
    At Beaver Dam there was a genuine bull fight. Two farmers lived in the neighborhood. One had a Durham bull and the other a Jersey bull. For some time past they had indulged in a great deal of bandying as to who had the better animal. It was finally arranged that they pit the […]
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 30, 1886
    Fort Elliott, Tex., Jan. 28.-It is estimated that fully 15,000 head of cattle lie dead on the prairie within a radius of seventy-five miles of this place. The prairie dogs are nearly all dead. However, not more than 1 percent of the native cattle have died from cold. Several persons were badly frozen. Dan […]
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, February 3, 1899
    William Bridon, prominent farmer of Canal township, Pa., was attacked by a vicious bull and fatally injured. Two brave daughters of the wounded man, hearing his cries for help, got axes and finally dispatched the enraged animal.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, December 11, 1908
Two Young Jerseys Cause a Turmoil in Hoboken House as They “Gallop” Upstairs-Get a good breakfast and are Finally Led Away by Firemen and Police. Â Â Â Â Two gay young Jersey cows with a taste for stair climbing and a deep rooted aversion for the slaughter house raised all kinds of a rumpus in a big […]
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, July 7, 1899
    In the great pastures along the South Canadian River in Cleveland and Pottawatomie Counties, Oklahoma, and across the line in the Chickasaw nation, flies are swarming on the cattle as never before known. dead cattle are found daily in every herd.