Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, January 2, 1908
Tuck is an Ordinary Looking Fox Terrier, but His Owner Declares He is the Smartest Canine in the United States. R. M. Smart, proprietor of a grain elevator at Xenia, O., claims to have in Tuck, an ordinary looking fox terrier, the smartest dog in the United States. The dog has never been taught a […]
Monday, September 22, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, February 24, 1908
Run Down at a Crossing as They Were Returning from a Basketball Game. Spring Valley, N. Y., Feb.24.-A foam specked pair of horses that tore through the streets dragging between them a splintered wagonpole brought to the village the first news of a grade crossing accident in which eight members of its most prominent families […]
Monday, September 22, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, January 27, 1913
Montana Lad Has Both Legs Frozen, but May Live. Butte, Mont., 27.-For fifteen hours eleven -year-old Frank Engstrom of Georgetown, a mining camp near Anadonds, was treed by a mountain lion a few nights ago while the thermometer registered thirty-five degrees below zero. Later the little fellow was brought to Butte and two frozen legs […]
Saturday, September 20, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, July 12, 1898
How a Well Known Ravine in Texas Got it’s Name. A Herd of 15,000 Cattle Stampeded at Night and Before They Were Stopped 2,700 of Them Were Killed-Costly Blunder Made by a Cowboy. One of the most desperate stampedes of cattle ever witnessed by a Texas cowboy, says Rev. J. B. Cranfill of Waco, Texas, […]
Friday, September 19, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, January 8, 1908
Washington Man Wins Desperate Encounter With Big Bird of Ill Omen in a Chicken Coop. Numerous raids have been made recently on people’s chicken houses in the vicinity of Meyern Falls, Wash., by hoboes, who have always succeeded in escaping unpunished with their booty. H. C. Buchanan, an old gentleman sixty-five years old, who lives […]
Friday, September 19, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, January 20, 1913
It appears that a new use has been found for the skin of the common rat. In England, it is said, the bookbinders have taken to using these skins for covers of fine editions hitherto bound to high grade leathers. It is reported that a trade amounting to one-quarter million dollars a year has developed […]
Friday, September 19, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 11, 1913
The wonders of science will never cease. Paris has received a delicate jolt by the exhibition of a rat which carries around a pianola [piano] in its internal organism. A touch of its tail produces airs from the operas. M. Bertrand Lebaudy, the French zoological expert and savant, discovered that the ribs of the rat […]
Friday, September 19, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, November 6, 1912
Edward Carpenter Stays Specimen Weighing 45 pounds. Penfield, Ill., Nov. 5.-Groundhogs, which are a great curiosity in central Illinois, but more numerous in northern Illinois, are almost unknown in Champaign county. A specimen killed by Edward Carpenter in the timber near Penfield, weighed forty-five pounds and attracted much attention. it was the first reported in […]
Friday, September 19, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, aukegan, Illinois on Thursday, October 3, 1912
Baboons Had revenge for the Seizure of One of Their Number, Though Many Were Sacrificed. The leopard likes the meat of certain monkeys, but the indulgence of his taste sometimes costs him dear. A remarkable battle between a leopard and a company of baboons, seen by a traveler in Africa, is described in Das Buch […]
Friday, September 19, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, August 14, 1912
St. Joseph, Mo., Aug. 14.-R. R. Warren’s livery barn at Trenton, Mo., burned. Loss, $75,000. The largest mule in the world was among the stock destroyed. It weighed 2,048 pounds.