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Monthly Archives: August 2013

Crocodile In A Tree.

Saturday, August 31, 2013
Published in the The Evanston Daily, Evanston, Illinois on Wednesday, October 22, 1913

An African hunter once found a large crocodile hanging in the fork of a tree about ten feet from the ground. As the place was fully half a mile from any water, it was difficult to account for the crocodile’s strange position. When questioned upon the subject the natives explained that it was put there […]

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Chased By Wild Dogs.

Saturday, August 31, 2013
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 21, 1903

Montana Girl Had a Narrow Escape from an Awful Fate. Chased for more than a mile by a pack of wild dogs, Miss Gertie Sullivan, daughter of a sheep man living on Birch creek, near Havre, Mont., escaped only by spending the night in an old corral and picking off the animals now and then […]

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Forced To Eat A Cooked Cat.

Saturday, August 31, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, July 13, 1904

Wisconsin Woman Changes She Was Forced to Display Culinary Art on Feline Instead of Rabbit. Racine, Wis., July 13.-Judge Belden, of the circuit court has granted a divorce to Mattie J. Spaulding from Dr. J. Spaulding one of the most prominent physicians of Kenosha. Mrs. Spaulding was married in 1903, and she alleges that within […]

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Strange Man Beats Horses.

Saturday, August 31, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 27, 1903

In Race of Several Miles West of Town. Rigs Unable to Overtake Him. Fellow was Apparently Demented-Ran Far and Fast with no Apparent Reason. Strange and as apparently impossible as it may seem, a man apparently demented won a race against several horses over a distance of about eight miles, or from Odett’s corners, near […]

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