Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, June 15, 1908
Because the students of the Kansas University, at Lawrence, are stealing all the cats they find loose in the town for dissection in the zoology classes the people of the city have applied to the state authorities for assistance. They demand that the state furnish the cats to the university and that cats be sent […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, July 27, 1908
Fisherman Anthony Dexter is knocked Out of Boat by Monster. Lucky Blow on the Head Kills it When Man is Almost Exhausted by Battle. Anthony Dexter, a member of the crew of the fishing schooner Eva and Mildred, and a 300 pound swordfish engaged in a battle for life in a twelve foot dory, and […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, July 27, 1908
His Driver intended Them For His Dinner it Seems. Yesterday a local wagon driver put some eggs he intended for his dinner in the horse’s feed bag and forgetting about it put the bag to the horse’s nose at dinner time. The horse, he claims, ate the eggs greedily and when the driver took the […]
Saturday, January 19, 2013
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 14, 1903
Over Score Of People Killed And Fifty Hurt. Circus Trains Collide at Durand, Mich., and Men and Animals Perish-Wallace Brothers Show in Terrible Accident-Air Breaks Fail. Twenty-two persons were killed and about fifty injured in a wreck on the Grand Trunk road a mile from Durand, Mich., Friday. One section of Wallace Brothers circus train […]
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, February 3, 1908
Evidently Had a College Education and Knew Electricity. Ran Sleigh of Steel Into Hall Signal Switch and Train is Flagged. 1. First the Lake Forest horse ran away. 2. It made a bad break by getting onto the Northwestern tracks near the depot. 3. It corrected the “bull” by drawing the sleigh attached to it […]
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, March 16, 1909
You see it was this way. The dog saw the cat and chased it. The cat naturally ran. It sought refuge between a blacksmith shop and a private dwelling on Washington street and there it stuck. The dog pursued and it stuck between the walls also. A crowd gathered, clothes poles and broom sticks were […]
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, September 28, 1908
Chicago, Sept. 28.-Mrs. Elizabeth Bowles, 243 West Twelfth street, was attacked by a Newfoundland dog which bit her a least fifty times when she went to the aid of her three-year-old daughter, who had fallen down a flight of stairs. The dog thought it was defending its little companion. Mrs. Bowles’ condition is serious. The […]
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 2, 1878
Dr. Berthier, county physician, has at the county hospital, situated about a mile and a half east of that city, a dog of the St. Bernard breed. This dog is not yet fully grown, but it would seem, has the instincts of his breed strong within him. Last Saturday night about eight o’clock he rushed […]
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, October 13, 1908
Cincinnati, Oct. 17.-A battle for life took place before the eyes of hundreds of spectators in the Auditorium theater, between the “Great Swan,” trainer of alligators, and Nell, the largest reptile in his group of eight. The attack was made by the alligator in the large tank in the center of the stage. But for […]
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, October 11, 1909
Floor Gives Way and Animal Lands in the Basement. Chicago, Oct. 11.-A horse attached to a lumber wagon became frightened at Twenty-Fifth street and Emerald avenue, and started to run. The wagon was torn from the animal, which ran south, and through a plate-glass window into a saloon. The floor broke and the horse fell […]