Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 13, 1878
    Mr. X., of Blank, Mississippi, was proprietor of several cotton plantations, one of which was on the hills, about twenty miles from his place of residence, where he frequently resorted for a few days at a time in the spring season. That region is very hilly, and when denuded of forest, and brought into […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, December 1, 1921
    Once a young eagle was observed having a great game. It had found a stack of peat, and, lifting the sod in its claws, it flew up to a great height. It then dropped the sod and swooped down upon it at a terrific pace, catching it in its claws again. And so the […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, December 1, 1921
    For many years a pair of swans lived on the lakes in the grounds of Meldrum house, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. One day the male swan, who was getting lame and evidently feeling his age, while sailing along with his mate, seized hold of her head and held her under the water until she died. Shortly […]
Published in the lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, May 3, 1901
Four-Year-Old Boy Comes to Grief at Minneapolis. Â Â Â Â A remarkable battle which almost resulted in a tragedy was fought at Loring park, Minneapolis, when little Harry Carson, after fighting with a swan, was saved only by the timely efforts of a physician. Harry, who is only 4 years of age, was playing with the swans, […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, March 18, 1914
Child Dies After Being attacked by Angry Flock. Â Â Â Â Racine,Wis., March 18.-Frank Chumieck, ten years old, of Wind Point, was attacked by a flock of geese and knocked to the ground. Â Â Â Â His father, who heard his frantic screams, drove the geese off and carried the boy into the house, where he died five minutes […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, July 12, 1923
By International News Service. Â Â Â Â Cleveland, O., Dec. 19.-Loss estimated at $150,000 was caused by fire which destroyed a building occupied by five commission houses. Thirty-six hundred fowls were burned.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, January 30, 1922
Miss Agnes Schshinnskey painfully injured in battle with chanticleer. Â Â Â Â Miss Agnes Schshinnskey, employed in George’s Cafe, this morning had a terrific battle with a rooster which pounced upon her when she removed from a chicken coop a hen. The chanticleer hurled its eight pounds of fury at Miss Schshinnskey, striking her in the face, […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, April 6, 1922
    Roosters have different tactics when fighting and often display considerable brainwork. Recently, in a Cuban rooster fight, where a little rooster was pitted against a big fellow, the little bird looked at his antagonist and started to run around and around, with the big rooster after him. Then, when the big bird was out […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 15, 1871
    Two women in Staunton, Ind., got into a fight about an egg that a hen of one of the women laid in the barn of the other. Then their sons engaged in the melee, and before it ended one of the women had her back broken by a stroke from a club, and will […]
Published in the Belvidere Standard, Belvidere, Illinois on Tuesday, July 29, 1862
    The Boston Journal Says;-We can vouch for the truth of the following; A friend who keeps poultry, had two hens which insisted upon sitting upon one nest. The result was not altogether favorable, although, after a while, the bipeds managed to divide the eggs. Only one chicken was hatched from the whole nest full. […]