Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, April 26, 1906
For swinging a monkey round his head by its tail, George Brown, a showman, was sentenced to twenty-eight days imprisonment in Liverpool.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, September 10, 1906
Mr. Cain of Galiano Island, British Columbia, had an exciting experience with some deer. While out in his boat for a row he noticed three deer swimming across Whaler’s bay. He gave chase and headed them up a narrow inlet, at the head of which was a steep bluff of rocks with a flat mud […]
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, August 18, 1832
A friend from West Hartford informs us that a drove of nearly two thousand rats, were seen early one morning last week, on their way from this city. They had been driven away, doubtless, by chloride of lime, the smell of which these long tailed individuals seem particularly to abominate. The gardens and roads about […]
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, September 6, 1848
If this too much abused and derided hybrid could speak, as did one of his far back ancestors, we should claim from them a vote of thanks, for what we have said, and caused to be said, in favor of their claim to kind consideration and treatment. Many years ago, at our suggestion, for he […]
Published in the Sangamo Journal-, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, December 14, 1833
A poor woman who lives in Water street, Philadelphia, was awakened in the course of the night by the faint cry of her infant; but supposing it to be merely the fretfulness of infancy, and wearied with the fatigues of the day, she fell asleep, but again awakened, when getting up and obtaining a light, […]
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, April 17, 1907
Trout Killed with a Hammer Masked Lake Fishermen. “I wore a woolen mask when I caught that fish,” said the angler, pointing to a mounted specimen above the sideboard, “and the thermometer registered 12 degrees below zero at the time. It was lake Michigan. On the lakes the summer fishing will aggregate 130,000,000 pounds a […]
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Published in the Sangamo Journal-, Springfield,Illinois on Thursday, October 21, 1847
A gentleman of our acquaintance a week or two since remarked an unusual collection of brown thrushes in a thicket contiguous to his residence. His attention have been drawn towards them for several successive days, by their loud cries and eccentric movements, he was at length induced to investigate more closely the course of the […]
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, June 24, 1907
Alton, Ill., June 24. A horde of locusts has settled among the trees of “Hop Hollow,” a popular picnic grounds near here, and driven every songbird out of the woods. The hollow has been marked for its songbird, but all have disappeared under the onslaught of the insects. Crows were the first victims. The locusts […]
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, February 21, 1849
The whaling barque Superior, Capt. Royce of Sagharbor, arrived at Honolulu on the 4th Sept. last, with 1,800 barrels of whale oil, which she took in the Arctic Seas. In an account of his successful voyage, furnished the “Friend,” Capt. Royce says: I entered the Arctic Ocean about the middle of July, and cruised from […]
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 4, 1907
Catching fish by electricity is the latest in the angling line. The old methods of Izaak Walton must retire to the verdant pines, only don’t let the game warden catch you fishing by electricity. Frank Sharrow, Lew Smith and Henry Cuehlke went to pine lake, thirty miles from Detroit, not long ago. They tied one […]