Friday, February 17, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 11, 1858
    Various interesting facts have been noted in relation to the demeaner of animals pior to a great convulsion. It was towards noon, beneath a clear and almost cloudless sky, with the sea breeze freshly blowing, that the cities of Conseption and Talcahuano, on the coast of South America, were desolated in 1835. At ten […]
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, July 29, 1907
    Frank Robben of St. Louis had a dairy, but no cows. He was arrested with his two sons on the charge of stealing milk, and the younger boy confessed that every morning they went out and stole every bottle and can of milk they could find on the steps of residences, stores and restaurants. […]
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, May 5, 1899
    An attempt to kill George E. Sterry, Jr., secretary of the firm of Weaver & Sterry, New York, was made when an asp was sent him through the mail. The address writen in faded ink on the box that held the snake was in a women’s hand. When opened the snake fell on Sterry’s […]
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Sunday, January 26, 1890
An Experiment That Proved Entirely Too Successful. Â Â Florida Letter; When Capt. Royce, late of Ohio, made his home in Florida he found a fine alligator perserve in one corner of his plantation, and realized almost as much from the sale of hides as from his oranges. In crossing a small bayou one day he […]
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Monday, January 20, 1890
A Massachusetts Sportsman Nearly Killed While Hunting in Maine. Â Â Â Â Boston, Mass., Jan.-19.-Alanson Haslam, a prominent Waltham sportsman, has just had a terrible experience with a buck which he attempted to kill in Northern Maine. The buck was a handsome specimen, about 3 years old. Haslam attempted to cut the animal’s throat after he had […]
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Sunday, December 23, 1877
Correspondence New York Post. Â Â Â Â The Hudson’s Bay Company, during the season just past, have made their shrewd and abundant preparations for a successful winter’s trade, and the coming spring, no doubt, will show a corresponding result in a more than average catch. Â Â Â Â The first in point of value is the pine marten, or […]
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Published in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Monday, December 16, 1867
    A Montreal special says that two children were eaten by wolves in the woods, in St. Malachi, on Thursday. The mother had a narrow escape.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicag, Illinois on Friday, May 23, 1879
    Lafayette [Ind.] Journal.     McDowall Cox, who lives about four miles from Lafayette, in Wabash Township, about two weeks ago lost a dog which he highly prized. The last that was seen of the animal was one day about that length of time ago, when he scared up some unknown creature and darted out […]
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, May 10, 1918
    A circus man, caught in the act of curing an elephant of a cold, was dared to take his own medicine. He declined, but invited the interviewer to return the next day and see the elephant cured. And the next day the elephant was rid of the cold. The keeper placed a bucket of […]
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, July 29, 1909
    While easily stalked, the rhinoceros is a dangerous customer, as most men will agree who have hunted him. If the rhinoceros gets one scent he almost invariably charges, often probably from sheer curiosity, but that does not make him any the easier to dispose of. Moreover, he runs and turns at a speed inconceivable […]