Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, July 16, 1908
Terrifying Experience With a Deadly Lancehead. Â Â Â Â The Paris Eclair tells a blood curdling serpent story, the scene of which was the island of Martinque and the dramatis personne Sergent Legrand and Private Durand and the snake a deadly lancehead. Â Â Â Â The soldier had been punished with a night in the cells for some trivial […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, July 16, 1908
Instrument Proves Incubator For Rattlers-Followers of a Superstitious Theory Almost Create Panic at Church Concert. Â Â Â Â Residents of Sparrow Bush, four miles from Port Jervis, N. J., got the inside facts from Gene Tisdell why he dropped his fiddle at the church concert in Lifting Rocks just as he was about to play “Pop Goes […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 13, 1874
    An ingenious Minnesota youth is to be credited with a novelty in the way of duck hunting. He lives at a beautiful spot known as Rice lake, from the wild rice growing on its margin as thick as wheat in a field. Ducks love this rice, and when they have partaken of a sufficient […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, November 18, 1909
Charles Ballard Local Barber Said to Have Had Tussie With Bird Emperor. Admits He Was Beaten. Shot American Eagle He Says, and Then Tried to Capture Wounded King of Air But Met with Such resistance that Bird Got Away and Even Ballard Cannot Tell Exactly How he Did it. Â Â Â Â Charles Ballard, while out hunting […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, October 16, 1903
Son of Mrs. A. W. Schwane Kills Bird with Shotgun. Â Â Â Â After an attempt to beat off a bald eagle with an umbrella, Mrs. A. W. Schwane of 2544 Forty-first avenue, Chicago, fainted away and was rescued by her 15-year-old son, who killed the bird with a single discharge from a double-barreled shotgun. Mrs. Schwane […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 3, 1878
The many rumors of the death of this bird are contradicted this week by the Wisconsin State Journal. It says; ‘It has not surprised us, that the Democrat of this city should endeavor to create the impression that the eagle “Old Abe,” the veteran of the 8th Wisconsin Regiment, was dead! This has been a […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, May 20, 1898
The Patriotic Bird that Saw Hard Service During the Civil War. Â Â Â Â It is unlikely that there will be any mascot during the war with Spain who will gain a popularity as great as that enjoyed by “Old Abe,” the war eagle, says a Chicago paper. No more famous bird ever lived. Everybody has heard […]
Published in the lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, December 25, 1908
Washington Man Wins Desperate Encounter With Big Bird of Ill Omen in a Chicken Coop. Â Â Â Â Numerous raids have been made recently on people’s chicken houses in the vicinity of Mayers Falls, Wash., by hoboes, who have always succeeded in escaping unpunished with their booty. H. C. Buchanan, an old gentleman sixty-five years old, who […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 28, 1901
    Findlay, O., Dec. 28.-Thirteen thousand sparrows, weighing nearly two tons, were killed during the six weeks contest which ended yesterday. The winning side, twenty-five men in number, captained by Lew Brickman killed nearly two-thirds of the birds and was given a banquet last night at McComb by the losing side, captained by Isaac Culp.
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, February 8, 1895
“I saw an eagle killed last summer in rather a strange way,” said Fred J. Hancock, of Harrisburg. One afternoon while out hunting, I noticed an immense eagle flying directly overhead bearing in its talons a burden that apparently worried it. I noticed that the bird began to show signs of weakness, but was somewhat […]