Monday, September 24, 2012
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, June 23, 1888
The two and one-half year old daughter of Thomas Barrett is lying ill at her father’s house, No. 51 Ohio street, from the effects of an attack made on her Thursday afternoon by a game chicken, the property of Patrick Crowley. Little Sarah, while playing in the backyard, saw the vicious little gamecock fly over […]
Monday, September 24, 2012
Published in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago,Illinois on Saturday, May 14, 1870
Three Thousand Broiled Hogs. From the Cincinnati Enquirer, May 12. The fire that broke out yesterday morning in the hog-pens attached to the distillery of J. W. Gaff & Co. proves to be quite as serious as announced in the brief account in yesterday morning’s Enquirer. The pens in question were situated on the western […]
Monday, September 24, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, November 30, 1921
Attempt to Colonize the Animal Was Not a Success-Marked Intelligence Shown by Them. A hundred years ago it was thought that the mountain forests of Great Britain might be colonized by raindeer from Lapland, and an account was given in 1821 in an issue of the Observer. London, of the extraordinary sagacity displayed by them […]
Friday, September 21, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, May 18, 1921
Don’t Wear Out Your Pencils, Folks-Here’s The Figure: 55,000,000,000,000,000. Cost Was Only $110.00. Residents of the city are asked to comply with the request of the lieutenants in the anti-fly and mosquito campaign and place on display on their premises the “Good Neighbor” cards which are being distributed. During the two weeks that the school […]
Friday, September 21, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 4, 1878
In the steppes of Russia it is not rare to see a two-year-old colt rush singly to attack a band of four or five wolves, kill one of them, lame the rest, and spread the terror of his name throughout the country. The wild horse strikes with his fore feet, like the stag, and not […]
Friday, September 21, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 16, 1878
Three of the crew of the steamship Intrepid, Captain Soutar, had a very exciting adventure at the Greenland sea fishery this season. During the time that their vessel was fast beset among the ice, three of the crew-Thomas Royall, Wolverhampton, James Winter, Peterhead, and William Mulligan, Dundee-set out one day to pay a visit to […]
Friday, September 21, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 12, 1878
1. Let your colt be domesticated and live with you from his tenderest age, and when a horse he will be simple, docile, faithful, and inured to hardship and fatigue. 2. Do not beat your horses, nor speak to them in a loud tone of voice; do not get angry with him, but kindly reprove […]
Monday, September 17, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 22, 1877
The Naturalist publishes some additional evidence relative to the destruction of birds by telegraph wires. An observer writes from Iowa: “Many prairie-chickens [Cupiaonia cupido] are annually destroyed in this way. In December 1868, near Cambridge, Story county, Iowa, I saw many of these birds lying dead in the snow, beneath the line of the telegraph, […]
Monday, September 17, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinpos on Saturday, December 8, 1877
Our first pet was a monkey, bearing the not uncommon name of “Jocko.” He was a small creature, very scantily provided with hair, very ugly, but so intelligent that his appearance was voted to be beneath consideration. The little thing was sent to us when quite young, and as he grew, surrounded by children, he […]
Monday, September 17, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 30, 1878
Two or three men and various dogs having been devoured by sharks off Melbourne, Australia, the Government offered a reward for the capture of these fish, and 3,000 were caught in one week; but inasmuch as the reward was at the rate of one shilling a foot, and no reward is given for sharks under […]