Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, June 1, 1908
    A hen belonging to Mrs. Al Granger, who lives some three miles northwest of Wauconda, recently laid an egg which as a curiosity breaks all previous records by a mile. The specimen measured nine inches the long way around and seven inches in circumference the other. When broken a complete egg of normal size […]
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Saturday, November 8, 1823
    A county gentleman who is neither a friend to thieves nor poachers, has at this moment in his household a favorite cat, whose honesty, he is sorry to say, there is but too much reason the call in question. The animal, however, is far from being selfish in her principles for her acceptable gleanings […]
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, May 19, 1911
    Twenty years of hard labor in the Chester penitentiary for the theft of eighteen chickens was the unusual punishment meted out by a jury in the Mattoon circuit court to Ora Brady, alias Blondin, a former resident of Iroquois County and an all around criminal.     The sentence is unusual because of its severity […]
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Monday, December 7, 1891
Harding, a Cattleman, Insane from the Horrors of a Terrible Experience. Â Â Â Â Englewood, Kas., Dec. 6.- [Special.]-News comes of the rescue from an old disused well in No man’s Land of a cattleman named Harding by the driver of the stagecoach which every ten days runs from Englewood to Beaver City, No Man’s Land, and […]
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, March 11, 1910
Deputy City Poundmaster Seal Has Narrow Escape. Timely Arrival of Poundmaster Cox Saved Helpless Man From being Torn to Pieces. Â Â Â Â Denver, Colo. March 11.-Prostrate on the floor of a chamber six feet square with seventy-five ferocious dogs raging about him snapping at his body. Thomas Seal, deputy city poundmaster, was nearly bitten to death […]
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, March 16, 1909
How it is used by the British Government in India. Â Â Â Â Its elephant fleet is one of the strangest and most deadly departments maintained by the British government in India. It is a large fleet of coasting steamers specially built for the transport of elephants. India’s population is one-fifth that of the entire globe. All […]
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, January 28, 1916
    That young cub bear, recently presented to Owner Weeghman of the Chicago Cubs by Senator Olson and Frank West of Waukegan, was killed yesterday. He escaped from his cage yesterday and invaded a tailoring factory and caused a panic among the 25 girl employes. The animal was captured in the woods of northern Wisconsin […]
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, September 26, 1917
    East St. Louis, Sept. 26-Five hundred horses are believed to have been burned to death in a fire this afternoon which is reported to be sweeping over the National Stockyards. Four blocks of the yards have been wiped out at 2 o’clock. The damage was estimated at that time to be $200,000.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, December 21, 1917
Chas. O’Hare Sustains Bad Injuries This Morning in Local Freight Yards. Â Â Â Â This morning Charles O’Hare, a local driver for the Bairstow Coal Company, was unloading a car on the E. J. & E. tracks. In some way his team started up rather suddenly and he was thrown beneath the load of brick and as […]
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Saturday, December 15, 1827
To the Editor of the Commercial Journal. Quebec Trader, off South Islands of Arren, Galway Bay, Feb. 8, 1827. Sir-Having this favorable opportunity of transmitting to you the following wonderful occurrence, which may be the means of setting to rest all doubts as to the existence of a marine monster, supposed to be the sea […]