Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, December 29, 1921
How Leghorn Procured a Large Family Without the Formality of Hatching Them. Â Â Â Â The fox is no cleverer than a Leghorn hen. So at least thinks one reader of the companion who has read the numerous stories that it has printed to illustrate the cleverness of foxes. To justify her opinion she tells a story […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, December 11, 1922
Reptile Seemed to Have Small Chance Against the Little though Fierce Birds. Â Â Â Â We soon found that there were two sparrow-hawks about, and by the 7th of March it seemed evident that they were mated and were considering the locality as a summer residence. Â Â Â Â We now saw them almost daily, and the perfect domestic […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 30, 1874
    We can tell you an anecdote about the condor’s power of life. A miner in Chili, a very strong man, once saw a condor enjoying his feast on the mountains. He had eaten so much that he could not fly, and the man attacked and tried to kill him. The battle lasted a long […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, November 5, 1897
Only Rooster in Georgia That Has a Tombstone Over His Grave. Enlisting at Culperer, Va., He Served Under Major Williams In Many Battles. A sentinel In a Tree-How He Betrayed Jim Nessmith. Â Â Â Â “While we were camped near Culpeper Court House in the fall of 1862,” said Major Tom Williams, “I became acquainted with a […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, May 31, 1901
Left their home near Job, W. Va., to Gather Wild Flowers. Â Â Â Â A Job, W. Va., special says: ‘To be crused to death in the embrace of a monstrous black bear and their little bodies afterward mangled and partly devoured was the frightful fate that befell the three young children of E. P. Porterfield, a […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 16, 1879
    Among the baggage coming down on a Flint & Pere Marquette train, the other day, was a full-grown black bear. Bruin had been in captivity for two or three years, and was on his way East for a Zoological garden. His owner was allowed to ride with him in the baggagecar, and he seemed […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, February 14, 1898
Two Men Killed and Many Injured in a Missouri Railroad Disaster. Â Â Â Â A cow derailed the north-bound Texas special on the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway, part of the Missouri Pacific system, at Hermatite, thirty-six miles south of St. Louis, resulting in the death of the engineer and fireman and a slight injury […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, March 25, 1898
    The other day a bicycle rider found a rare chance for sport. He was near the suburbs of Worcester. A farm wagon appeared, with a cow trailing behind, patiently submitting herself to be led by a rope from the front seat. The bicycle idiot rode up to the cow and began a series of […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 17, 1880
    On Sundat last, Mr. N. J. Ostrander, of this city, met with a serious mishap. He has been employed by Hon. Wm. B. Dodge this winter and has assisted in the care of the large stock of Shorthorn owned by that gentleman. On the day in question he was trying up some cattle in […]