Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, September 12, 1913
Capt. A. A. Walker Locates the Leader of Chicken Thief Gang at Kenosha. Did It On Wholesale Plan. Not Contented With Taking a Few at a Time, Gang Took Up to Fifty at Once. The wholesale chicken thefts that have been so sorely perplexing Zion City people for the last few weeks have come to […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, July 10, 1911
Fires in Chicago Also Cause Property Loss of $600,000. Chicago, July 10.-Two hundred and thirty-seven horses were cremated, a hundred more were imperiled and a property loss aggregating approximately $600,000 was caused by two fires which destroyed the transfer stables of the Arthur Dixon Transfer company, South State street, near Fourteenth, and the storage ware […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, November 3, 1910
Indiana Farmer Drives Into Barn, Horses Hoofs Hit Flint-Blaze. Lawrenceburg, Ind., Nov.3.-When George W. Hayes, a farmer, three miles north of here, drove a team to his barn, the steel shoes of the horses came in contact with several Indian arrow heads that were on the floor. The striking of the steel and flint caused […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 6, 1906
Augusta Canine Seemingly Unhappy When Without Them. There is a dog in Augusta, says the Augusta Chronicle, who dresses just like a man, wearing the regulation coat, vest, collar and cravat, and is very proud of his apparel, being seemingly very much distressed whenever his busy master does not have time to rig him up […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, August 15, 1907
Tale of an Egg That Has the Ordinary Fisherman’s Yarn Beaten Badly. Peoria, Ill., Aug.15.-This is not a fish story. It is the tale of an egg of tremendous size and of peculiar shape-a sort of prize box, as it were, for until the owner opened it he had no idea of the surprise that […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 27, 1912
Three years ago a woman farmer in Wales sold a pony to her son, who resides some twenty-five miles away between Rhuddian and Rhyl. The pony has for the third time found its way back to its former home managing to unfasten two gates in order to do so.
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, October 6, 1832
A gentleman, who domesticates at present with us, was awakened a few nights since by the gambols of a rat upon his bed. He arose and supposing he had ejected his unwelcome visitor, closed the door of his chamber and again resigned himself to the arms of his sleepy god. Nothing more was heard of […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, August 14, 1911
Ingenious Trap That Was Formerly Used by the Mexicans. The Mexicans in California had an ingenious method of trapping bears before the advent of the Yankees brought modern firearms into the region. A piece of meat was nailed to the stout horizontal limb of an oak tree. From a limb five or six feet above […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, July 10, 1908
Freak Bolt that Hit the Keen Stables Near Libertyville. Skin of 1,500 Horse Had Many Perforations. And the Strangest Thing is That Dwight Major, One of the Finest Horses in the Stable, is Now Recovered. Many stories are told of the curious and strange pranks that have been wrought by that mysterious something-electricity, Lightning in […]