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Monthly Archives: September 2013

Cargo Of Elephants.

Saturday, September 14, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Tuesday, April 1, 1851

We are glad to learn that Mr. S. B. June, whom we formerly announced as having to come from America for a cargo of elephants, has succeeded in procuring the object of his search. Mr. June, a perfect stranger to the country, went into the interior, and succeeded in picking up between 20 and 30 […]

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A Bear Ride.

Saturday, September 14, 2013
, Illinois State Journal on Monday, April 14, 2025

A day or two since, as Mr. Solomon Reed, of Dorset, Vt. was cutting wood, at some distance from his house, a very large bear stole up behind and ordered him to stop. He let fly his axe at Bruin, but it missed, and Bruin, in turn, let fly at him. Solomon then seized a […]

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Deer

Saturday, September 14, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Monday, March 17, 1851

It is said that one of the bands of the Medwakantodwad Dakotahs in Minnesota, have delivered to their trader, fifteen hundred deer skins, which they have taken this season. If this is correct, the band must have killed at least two thousand deer during the fall and winter, for five hundred skins or more are […]

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