Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, September 20, 1909
A fox is bound to be a thief whenever he has a chance to steal, says London Answers. He can no more help taking a goose than a badly trained cat can help taking a chop from the larder. There was a tame fox that was chained in a yard to keep him out of […]
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, September 20, 1909
George Devine, teamster and scavenger, lay in a field on Eleventh street beyond the west side car line from 9 o’clock last night until 7 o’clock this morning, a fallen horse on his leg and with the member broken below the knee and giving him excruciating pain that at times caused consciousness to flicker out. […]
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 18, 1909
Millions of Them Invade the City of San Bernardino, Cal. San Bernardino, Cal., Sept. 18.-Millions of grasshoppers are swarming in the city. Attracted by the lights, the insects carpeted the streets in the business section. So far there has been no report of damage to vegetables.
Published in the Sangamo Journal-, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, July 5, 1834
From Jackson’s Travels. Locusts in Africa are produced from some unknown physical cause, and proceed from the desert, always coming from the south. When they visit a country, it behoves every individual to lay in provision against a famine; for they are said to stay three, five, or seven years. During my residence in West […]
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, July 5, 1834
In the Savannahs of Izacubo, in Guiana, I saw the most wonderful, the most terrible spectacle that can be seen; although it be not uncommon to the inhabitants, no traveler has ever mentioned it. We were ten men on horseback, two of whom took the lead, in order to sound the passages; whilst I preferred […]
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, December 30, 1847
The most remarkable case of intelligence and tractability in swine of which we have heard, is of a sow trained to hunt, an account of which is given in the following extract from Daniel’s Rural Sports: “Toomer [formerly one of the king’s keepers in the new forest, afterwards game keeper to Sir Henry Mildmay] broke […]
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, September 5, 1906
Dallas, Tex., Sept. 5.-A mule hitched to a delivery wagon and driven by W. A. Sellars caused a panic at the Southern station by smashing Captain W. H. Wilkerson’s big automobile. The mule appeared not to like the odor of the machine, and having been driven up close to it, he set upon the automobile […]
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, January 21, 1907
Danville, Ill., Jan. 21.-The annual show of the Vermillion County Poultry association is being held here, and one of the entries is a white crow. The bird was taken from a nest last spring by James Jones near State Line, Ind. Every feather is white, as are also the beak and legs. The eyes are […]
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 12, 1906
Despite the verdict of farmers generally that the crow is a blackleg and a thief, the farmers’ bulletin of the U. S. department of agriculture rather takes the part of Mr. Crow. Nevertheless, without the dash and brilliancy of the jay, or the bold savagery of the hawk, the crow is accused of doing more […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, April 27, 1906
Knocked down by a dog, Waldemar Bjork, of Tenth street, had the tip of his nose and one finger bitten off by the raging and frothing animal and both wounds were cauterized by Dr. Bellows late yesterday afternoon to prevent hydrophobia. The dog is noted as an ugly one, and young Bjork, with other boys, […]