Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, October 24, 1918
Infrequency of Such Events More to be wondered at Than Fact That They Occur. Probably the most remarkable thing about the many reported showers of such objects as fish, frogs, toads and the like is the skepticism with which the accounts of these occurrences are greeted. The wonder is, observes a writer, not that they […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, October 19, 1922
    Athens, Ohio, Oct. 19-A turtle bearing the inscription “A. H. 1831” has been found on the Hewitt Farm west of here. It is stated by old settlers that the same turtle has been wandering over this farm for nearly half a century.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, December 3, 1897
    A 500 pound sea turtle, 14 years old, was captured and killed in Chicago harbor by two fishermen. Old lake men say this is the first sea turtle that has ever reached the southern end of Lake Michigan of its own volition.
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, March 9, 1894
The stomach of a dead ostrich at the zoo of Clifton, England, contained a prayer book, a pencil case and two handkerchiefs. A Georgia man killed a snapping turtle and ate it after throwing the head over into the back yard. A few days after the turtle’s head caught a chicken and held it until […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, October 22, 1897
    Several fishermen at Highland Lake, near Middletown, N. Y., had an exciting experience with two immense snapping turtles recently. The turtles were engaged in a deadly combat fifty feet from shore and the men attempted to take them with hook and line. The fishermen summoned two companions to aid them, but the turtles fought […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, June 7, 1901
    The pickpocket who tried to “pinch” a likely looking man’s pocketbook and found his fingers in the grasp of two snapping turtles was a Japanese. A native traveler in Japan had bought the turtles, and, being afraid that he would be charged heavily for their transportation as live animals on the train, he placed […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, November 14, 1885
    [Wong Chin Foo in Chicago News.]     Turtle fighting is very common in the east, and I am surprised the sport has not been introduced into this country. It’s quiet, nice, and very satisfactory. Two kinds of the reptiles are good for fighting-the mud turtle and the snapper. The latter is quicker and more […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 27, 1878
Seventy-five Turtles Clawing and Chawing Each Other for an Hour. Â Â Â Â The seventy-five turtles in the fountain basin near the Fourth avenue entrance to Gilmore’s Garden, had a battle yesterday morning. Such was never seen before. At least seventy-five lay together in an apparently inextricable mass on the bottom of the basin. Two dead turtles […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 8, 1867
There is at a Nashville brewery a mammoth frog, weighing twelve pounds which is supposed to have attained his enormous size from the nourishment received from the health-giving beverage manufactured at that establishment. He is kept in the cellar, with no companions but his own thoughts, and drinks his regular allowance of lager, with all […]
Sappho Turtle, Jailed for “No Soup” 12 Years Ago, Found Under City Scales. Soup For Firemen. Â Â Â Â Police records from the dim ages past, dim because they are 12 years old, were exhumed today in the search for the history of Sappho, the snapping turtle that was dug out of the mud underneath the old […]