Monday, September 17, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 7, 1886
Oregon pays a bounty of 2 cents for every squirrel killed, and one man was recently paid for 125,000 squirrel tails which he had collected.
Monday, September 17, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 10, 1886
Cairo, Ill., July 5.-Ballard county, Kentucky, is in a wild state of excitement over a singular and fatal malady which has taken possession of her cows. They first go wild and frantic, fighting and making war upon everything in sight, with tongues lolling out and eyes bulging and bloodshot, finally dying in twenty to thirty […]
Monday, September 17, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, March 13, 1876
Mr. Thomas J. Roach of San Jose, California, reports having purchased several months ago, a lot of fine cropple-crowns which he kept aloof from his less aristocratic fowls, in a small yard. The chief of his family was a large, black bird of an exceeding haughty disposition. He was monarch of all he surveyed till […]
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 13, 1886
Nearly two thousand persons assembled at Rhinebeck, N. Y., to witness the killing of a famous fat hog and bet on his weight. When dressed, he scored 888 and one-half pounds.
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, December 9, 1904
Appalling List of Fatalities During Deer Hunting Season. One hunter was killed or wounded for every sixty-five deer killed in the north woods of Wisconsin and northern Michigan in the hunting season which has just closed. Forty-two nimrods were either slain outright or died from their wounds, many of them being shot down by overzealous […]
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 28, 1877
Three weeks ago a gentleman of this city purchased a fine, high-bred mare in Boston, and, as she was being led to the depot in that city, she became frightened and started at full speed, coming in contact with a horse car and next with a doctor’s chaise, and fell with great violence upon the […]
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 10, 1877
Van Amburgh could handle his lions and tigers with impunity. No animal will fail to respond to kindness and uniform good treatment. And especially will the noble horse respect and faithfully serve a master who deals gently and kindly with him. We have ourselves taken a spirited Morgan mare which had been rudely handled and […]
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Published in the Waukegan DailySun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, March 31, 1922
Muskrats force themselves occasionally upon one’s attention in India by their habit of entering a bungalow and ambling slowly round the rooms, talking loudly to themselves all the time in a chattering voice. Although ratlike, the muskrat is not really a rat, but a large shrew, protected by an extreme degree of offensive odor like […]
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Published in the Waukegan DailySun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, December 15, 1922
A rope made of 3,000 gopher [ground squirrel tails was recently on display at the office of the Montana extension director, awaiting shipment to the biological survey of the United States Department of Agriculture. The rope was made by the Blackfeet Indian chief Split-Ear, and his tribal assistants, who live near Browning, in Glacier county, […]
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Published in the Waukegan DailySun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, May 8, 1896
A prize of $250 for a method of inoculating squirrels with some contagious fatal disease is offered by the Commercial Association of Pendleton, Ore., and it is believed the county authorities will add to the sum offered. The farmers of that region are at their wits end as to how to mitigate the plague of […]