Friday, September 30, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 21, 1881
    A Texas steer escaped from a car in St. Louis, last Wednesday, and for three hours made it lively for people on some of the main business streets. Several persons were injured but none fatally. Fully one hundred shots were fired at him by policemen and others, twenty of which took effect, before he […]
Friday, September 30, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 19, 1866
    Mr. Samuel Black, living about three miles northwest of Jacksonville, is the owner of a cow about ten years old, that, in the last seven years, has had and raised fifteen calves! Morgan county against the State for stock raising.
Friday, September 30, 2011
Published in the Dixon Telegraph and Lee County Herald, Dixon, Illinois on Wednesday, August 6, 1851
    A few weeks ago a cow belonging to one of our citizens, was purchased by a gentleman who owns saw mills at the north, for the purpose of carrying her to Pensuckie, a place some twenty-five miles north of Green Bay. The old cow with her calf, was accordingly driven down the pier, and […]
Friday, September 30, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Monday, June 28, 1909
    ‘During the lumbering operations in the Canadian backwoods in the winter,” said a lumberman, “the French workmen-you know the French eat cocks’ combs and snails and skate-season their beans and bacon with ant sauce. Nearly every tree that falls, you know, discovers a great colony of red or brown ants. These, the French woodmen […]
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Wednesday, July 28, 1909
    ‘Fox” Boyes, a small white fox terrier, made a rat killing record for himself at the Insull farm recently where the firm of Boves & Sanborn are building a new barn. The old barn on what was formerly known as the Davison farm was being torn down to be replaced by a new one […]
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 2, 1912
Lake Forest Fixes Rate Five Times Higher as That Set by St. Louis. Town Gives This Reason For Generous Inducement to Successful Swatters. Â Â Â Â Flies were quoted Friday on the Lake Forest board at 50 cents a pint. Â Â Â Â It is merely a question of supply and demand with Lake Forest. That city claims the […]
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, September 6, 1912
    Fishermen in the Caribbean sea recently found in the stomach of a shark which they had killed a good sized bottle in which was a half-decipherable letter from a shipwrecked sailor. Many such relics have been found. In one case a lady’s bracelet was found in a state of perfect preservation, together with a […]
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, November 24, 1915
Joe McCrone Says He Had to Seize Hold of Goose’s Neck to Make it Let Go. Â Â Â Â Recently the Sun printed an item which many considered a mere joke, to the effect that when crossing a lot on the West side Joe McCrone of the People’s market had been “bitten by a big goose.” Â Â Â Â […]
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, April 26, 1916
    Aurora, Ill., April 25.-A bull, enraged at the sight of a red necktie worn by John Phail of Geneva, chased the man and gored him to death as he tried to climb a fence. The bull’s horns pierced Phail’s lungs. The animal trampled the man after he had fallen to the ground. Phail’s cries […]
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, November 4, 1910
    The prize winning team belonging to Swift & Company was rescued and 100 other horses met death Saturday night when the walls of the north end of the stables at forty-first and Laflin streets collapsed. There were 250 horses in the stables. Edward F. Swift and his brother, Chas. H. Swift, were among the […]