Published in the Chicago Press and Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, July 30, 1859
Greenly writes a long letter describing his trip from Denver City to the mouth of the Platte River. He thus relates a discussion that occurred one night around the campfire. “By the way, there was a discussion at supper between my three companions-all mountaineers of ripe experience-as to the relative merits of certain meats, of […]
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily News, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, September 23, 1912
Is a Natural Imitator and Responds Quickly to Training-Its Memory Strong. The blackbird, which belongs to the thrush family, has strong imitative powers, and has even been taught to speak. There is not much variety in its natural song, but its voice has a pure, flute-like tone and full volume. The bird is very susceptible […]
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, August 25, 1897
Believed to Be the One Hit by a Locomotive a Year Ago. One day last fall the locomotive of a passenger train on the Western New York & Pennsylvania railroad, running 40 miles an hour, near Watsonville, Pa., struck a bear that came out of the woods and attempted to cross the track in front […]
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 6, 1912
In One Instance the Foundations of a Modern House on the North Side Have Been Seriously Undermined by the Rodents-Up to Now Worst on North Side. It develops that Waukegan has been invaded by an army of large rats which promises to develop a most serious condition, especially on the North Side where the pests […]
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, April 25, 1912
Manzanillo reports that a plague of mice has visited the fields in that section of Colima and almost destroyed the corn and rice crops. The rodents have gnawed away at a rate that alarmed the farmers and they have appealed to the authorities for some means to exterminate them. Whole fields of corn have been […]
Saturday, October 11, 2014
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, July 25, 1902
Near Tulsa, I. T., a Creek Indian boy, Charles Mingo, was found dead, securely fixed on the horns of a wild Texas steer. When found the steer was trying to dislodge the boy by rubbing against the banks of a small ravine.
Saturday, October 11, 2014
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 1, 1902
Twenty-eight Animals of a Large Herd Fall in Electrical Storm. During an electrical storm which passed through Plainfield twenty-eight head of cattle were killed by lightning. They were in a wooded pasture one and one-half miles south of town, and were owned by the George brothers, farmers in the vicinity, who had seventy cattle in […]
Saturday, October 11, 2014
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, October 31, 1902
Carries Three-Year-Old Florence Rogers Through Flames. The hero of the fire brigade along the border between Yuba and Butte counties, Cal., is a great Dane, that fought his way through the flames bearing in his jaws the living body of 3-year-old Florence Rogers. The parents of the child, when the alarm of fire was given, […]
Saturday, October 11, 2014
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, November 28, 1902
Missouri is to Have the Largest Goat Farm in the world. The Frisco Livestock Company was organized in St. Louis for the purpose of maintaining an Angora ranch near Cuba, Mo., on the Frisco Railroad. The ranch will embrace 30,000 acres of timbered land. It will be stocked with 35,000 goats brought from New Mexico, […]
Saturday, October 11, 2014
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, ILinois on Friday, December 26, 1902
The leading animal dealer of this city has for some time past been in the habit of feeding his boa constrictors, ball snakes, and black snakes on white rats, rabbits and guinea pigs, animals that multiply so rapidly that this is the only means he has of disposing of those he can not sell. As […]