Sunday, September 11, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, October 9, 1916
Maltese and Four Kittens Discovered Far Up in Tree. Â Â Â Â New York.-High in a maple tree a Maltese cat belonging to Mickael Dooley, owner of a saloon on Union street, Flushing, purred over her four brand new kittens. She had carried to the spot material for what might be called a nest. Lying on guard […]
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 6, 1916
Fourteen Year Old Lad Shows Presence of Mind Which Results in His Escape. Â Â Â Â A miraculous escape from serious injury or death happened in Zion City Friday afternoon. About 2 o’clock a horse and rig belonging to the American Express Company suddenly went bounding along Elijah avenue at full speed. A boy about 14 years […]
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, October 26, 1916
Mary Hickey’s donkey fell into a manhole near the Lawrance Armour estate in Lake Forest Wednesday and had to stay there for an hour or so before the police came with a derrick. Mary Hickey is the little old woman who “haunted” the house of Prentiss Coonley some time ago.
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Saturday, November 16, 1822
    Sir Thomas Roe took out some English mastiffs to India, as a present for the Great Mogul; they were of marvellous courage. One of them leapt overboard to attack a school of porpoises, and was lost. Only two of them lived to reach India. They travelled each in a little coach to Agra; one […]
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Saturday, September 28, 1822
    The serpents in the possession of Mr. Neal, on Sycamore-street, Petersburg, [Va.] are objects, in our opinion, eminently deserving the attention of the curious. To see a full grown Rattlesnake, [perhaps the most deadly poisonous of the serpentine race] upwards of four feet in lenth, 5 or 6 inches in circumference, with its fangs […]
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Saturday, September 7, 1822
    A person in the upper wards of this city, having some money to pay to another person, called upon him, with the same, but found that he was not at home; his dog, however was present, and eyed the man, and saw the money in his hands. Calling the second time, he found his […]
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Tuesday, May 29, 1821
Capt. Grows, of the brig Minerva, arrived at Bath on the 2nd, states, that on the preceeding Friday, between 5 and 6 o’clock, P. M. Cape Ann was a distant 15 miles, the sea quite smooth and a very light breeze, he saw very distinctly the Sea Serpent, about 40 yards from the vessel, steering […]
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Kaskaskia, Illinois on Wednesday, November 10, 1819
    A rattlesnake was lately killed at Wilton, [R. I.] in which were found eighty-two living young ones, from 8 inches to a foot in length.
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Kaskaskia, Illinois on Wednesday, November 3, 1819
    Mr. Harrison, of Canterbury, acomplished a most arduous undertaking; he laid a wager of 3000 guineas that he could ride from Canterbury to London in three hours, being a distance of 56 miles. He started at 3 o’clock and arrived at the appointed place in two hours and fifty-seven minutes, winning by three minutes. […]
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Friday, August 6, 1824
    Last year a rattlesnake was killed on Bullard’s plaines, in the parish of Felioiana, which had not less then one hundred and thirty seven rattles. If the generally perceived opinion, that the number of rattles denote the age of this species of the surpentine race be correct, the snake must have been as old […]