Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, August 24, 1911
Starved and Footsore Finds Way Back to Chicago From Indiana, Where It Was Lost For Two Months. Chicago, Aug. 24.-It’s a walk of 287 miles from Evansville, Ind., to Chicago and there aren’t any sign posts on the way that a dog can read, but this is the trip that John Cummings, janitor of the […]
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, October 16, 1911
Twenty-five hundred persons were bitten by dogs in New York city during the first eight months of the present year, according to the returns received by the department of health. Of those bitten 1,850 were males and 650 females. Children were the greatest sufferers-1,800 as against 700 adults. Twenty-five persons were bitten more than once. […]
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, October 27, 1911
Trapped, caught by the hind leg, a skunk on the Ingraham lot beneath the hill and in the rear of the residence on Sheridan road this morning crawled into a hole, trap and all, buried himself inside, literally pulling the hole in after him. Mr. Ingraham, assisted by half a score chicken fancier neighbors, proceeded […]
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, December 4, 1911
Labadist missionaries in America wrote to Europe in 1697 that they had eaten oysters a foot long. They said they were very palatable and fully as good as the English variety. An early writer states he had seen oysters thirteen inches in length in Virginia, where in 1609 many of the famished settlers found in […]
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, December 18, 1911
Little Dog Braves Wounded Wild Beast and Saves Life of His Master. That victory is not always a matter of size or strength was pleasingly illustrated in the case of the dog that did his duty so effectually in the incident here related. A man named De Beer had started early one morning for a […]
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, December 22, 1911
Drink Liquor Spilled in the Street and Gave Real Exhibition of Drunkenness. A heavy truck loaded high with kegs of liquor was jolting across a line of downtown car tracks when one of the kegs toppled and fell from the top of the pile into the street. It was thoroughly smashed, so the truckman whipped […]
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, October 21, 1907
Woods had only five all told but the President got all he saw. Only one shot by his own rifle. Goes into the bush for bruin and shoots straight.-Other big game is killed. Stamboul, La., Oct. 21.-“We got three bears, six deer, one wild turkey, twelve squirrels, one duck, one possum and one wildcat. We […]
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, August 21, 1911
Cudahy Packing Plant Suffers Damage to Amount of $200,000. South Omaha, Aug. 21.-Fire in the plant of the Cudahy Packing company in this city caused a loss of $200,000. From the Cudahy plant the fire spread to the Union stockyards plant and hog pens to the value of $50,000 were burned. Those pens were filled […]
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, July 31, 1911
Farmer Finds Out That Eggs From Flies Make Fine Table Delicacy and Will Raise them for the Market. Tidnesta, Pa., July 31.-Instead of following the new fad of swatting flies, Flambert Macy, a farmer of Tidioute township, is swarming them in coops and raising them for their eggs, for he expects to fine large sale […]
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, August 6, 1907
Some time ago a northern golfer drove a ball a fine, low, skimming shot across a river. Just as the ball was nearly over a salmon leaped at the ball and caught it in its mouth. Such was the pace of the ball that it carried the salmon on to the river’s bank, where it […]