Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Tuesday, March 19, 1912
    “I notice in the Daily News [Chicago] of April 2 an Associated Press report from Salt Lake City, saying that Elmar Apeigren of that place has a hen that laid an egg 8 1-16 inches in circumfernce, the egg being on exhibition there. I have a hen, a rose comb Plymouth Rock, that lays an egg much larger than that, and has for three years. I have on hand one of her eggs at the present time measuring 8 1-4 inches in circumstances transverscely and 10 inches around lenthwise and weighing five and one-half ounces. I have noticed a great many reports of large eggs, but I fully believe that this hen is the champion large egg layer of the world today. She lays these eggs every other day or every third day and about thirty a season.
    “I succeeded in hatching one this spring and the chick was 1 week old yesterday, the size of a four weeks chick. In the three years I have only found two of these eggs that contained two yolks.
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 4, 1911
Clifton, Pa., Man Denies That He is “An Old Hen” But Admits That an Egg Placed in His Bed Became a Chick.
    Pittsburg, Pa.-Oscar Heinze, a farmer of Clifton, holds the human incubator record.
    Little did he expect when he took his bedtick to the barn recently and filled it with straw that he was to become parent to a chick.
    The straw happened to contain a hen’s egg, but Heinze did not know. For a couple of weeks he slept on the newly filled matress before he was aroused by a “Cheep! cheep’ cheep!”
    He lighted a lamp and searched the room, but could not find the source of the sounds, which had become louder.
    Finally he was convinced the “cheep, cheep” came from his bed, and with a knife slit open the tick. Inside, near the surface was a lively chick, which the heat of his body had hatched from the egg.
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, June 2, 1911
    Cincinnati, May 26.-Lockland has a human incubator in Jacob Zeitz, who after three days at the task, has added forty-two Plymouth Rock chichens to his possessions. For three days he lay in bed with sixty eggs grouped around him with a heavy blanket as covering.
    Mr. Zeitz had four Plymouth Rock hens which had been setting for eighteen days when they were stolen four nights ago. Then he gathered up the eggs and carried them to his house. He and his wife talked the situation over and finally ended it by having him get into bed and arrange the eggs about him.
    For three days he lay in bed, waited on by Mrs. Zeitz who says that her hardest duty was to keep “Jake’ satisfied with a sufficient quantity of beer. Finally the eggs hatched out and Zeitz says being a human incubator isn’t so hard as some people suppose.
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 19, 1910
Spherically Shaped Egg Laid This Morning in Shape and Weight of the Regulation Tennis Ball.
    Fred Wilson, the 5 cent theater man on south Genesee street, and a mighty popular one at that; has a hen that is laying tennis balls and he is willing to close a contact with some big sporting goods house to supply the novel tennis balls in numbers.
    The reason therefor is that the hen this morning laid an egg perfectly spherical in shape and of the size and appearance generally of a regulation tennis ball. The egg is on exhibition in the Sun office window and is the best of a long procession of freak eggs which the Sun has gathered and shown.
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, November 29, 1907
    To walk right up to a monster bear and try to shove it out of the way and then escape without so mush as a scratch is an experience of a lifetime. Harry I. Engelbright found it so a few days ago in Diamond canyon, above Washington, Nev. The young man, son of Congressman Ebgelbright, has just returned from the upper country, where he has been doing some surveying, and relates his thrilling experience. It was coming on dusk at the close of the day’s work. In the brush lined trail he saw protruding what he thought were the hind quarters of some stray bovine. He walked up and gave the brute a shove. It came to its haunches with a snort that made his hair rise and caused him to beat a hasty retreat. The big brute looked around and then shuffled off into the woods.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 22, 1868
    Twenty-five citizens of Hillsboro, went fox hunting a few days ago, and returned with the glorious trophies of the chase-viz, thirty-five foxes and lots of fun.
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, January 24, 1913
    Decatur, Ill., Jan.-Someone today threw a brick into the smoothly running parcel post machinery in the Decatur postoffice. It was a package of fresh skunk hides, mailed by a trapper on a rural route. Because fresh breezes were blowing in the country the rural route carrier was able to bring the parcel post to Decatur, but as soon as he carried it into the building the force of clerks went out by another door.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, March 22, 1922
    Algonac, Mich., March 22.-Hours of torture, in which Mrs. Joseph Sears, 72 year old trapper, struggled against a muskrat trap which held her in two feet of mud and water were revealed with the finding of the woman’s body in the flats here. One of her own traps had snared her, and a boat, from which she was baiting it, tipped over and floated away.
    For at least five hours the woman floundered on the icy water and mud. To extricate herself she attemped to bite off her right wrist, near where the steel trap gripped her. Unable to stand upright nor lie prone, she maintained the stooping position until the cold air and icy water drove her into a frenzied fight in which she almost tore all her clothing from her back. So firm was the grip of the vise like trap that all her struggles only forced her deeper into the mire. Her body was half submerged in mud when found. Death was due to cold and exposure, the coroner’s office ruled.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 2, 1878
    A man in Rockland, Me., lately dug out of one hole fifty-five snakes and six full-grown skunks-Boston Post.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, October 2, 1875
    Miss Molly Allen, of Napa, Cal., a maiden of twelve or thirteen, has killed more game with her small telescope rifle than any two hunters in that region this winter. She made thirty dollars on squirrels tails last summer, getting only five cents apiece. At a shooting match last year she took so many prizes that her bearded opponents ruled her out of the ring.