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A Dog’s Affection for his master.

Sunday, August 7, 2016
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois

Mr. O. M. Hopkins, late of Scottsburg, who died in January last, had a small and sprightly terrier, named “Nig,” of which he was very fond. After the death of his master, Nig grew melancholy. Nothing the family could do seemed to amuse him. He could not be enticed from the side of his mistress, […]

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A Man Eaten by the Wolves.

Friday, August 5, 2016
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Tuesday, April 30, 1850

The New York Courier extracts from the Republique, published at Tarbes, (High Pyramid) France, the following horrible account of a man being destroyed by wolves near that place: “On the night of the 4th inst., in the annals of our country, occured in the valley of Aure. A pedler was returning from the village of […]

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Killed By a Snake.

Friday, August 5, 2016
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Tuesday, August 21, 1945

The Columbia, Va. Spy states that a little girl, about eight years of age, was killed by a snake a few days since, near Bainbridge. She was out getting blackberries and remaining a longer time than usual, search was made for her. She was found dead, with a large black snake coiled around her neck.

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Dogs

Friday, August 5, 2016
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, July 8, 1901

While men ran away a woman threw a supposedly mad dog over the Randolph street viaduct at Chicago.

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Dogs Delight To Bark And Bite.

Wednesday, August 3, 2016
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, February 11, 1908

Gather in Large Numbers on South Sheridan Road. Residents in Neighborhood Threaten to Shoot Pack Unless They Depart for Other Shores. Residents of South Sheridan road witnessed this morning the fiercest dog fight Waukegan has ever had. For the past three or four days scores of dogs have been congregating about this district but no […]

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The Great Hail Storm in Minnesota,

Tuesday, August 2, 2016
Published in the Chicago Press and Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Thursday, August 19, 1858

The late hail storm in Minnesota was of a most destrutive character. In Freeborn County, we are told, it raged as a tornado, tearing hundreds of oak trees almost into shreds, tumbling down fences, flattening corn fields, demolishing gardens, and doing much other damage. In Fairfield, Geneva, Clark’s Grove, etc. the storm was characterized by […]

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Horse Bites Undertaker.

Tuesday, August 2, 2016
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, June 3, 1913

Evansville, Indiana. June 8,-C. P. Carlisle, a local undertaker, was bitten in the side by a vicious horse, and his condition is regarded as serious.

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