Saturday, November 9, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, May 10, 1920
So far as West Hammond, Ind., is concerned the war is still raging. The town is imperiled with asphyxiation in the stench of its own war fervor, hoping peace will be declared. Let Chief Nitz tell about it: “When we got in to the war the government urged all patriotic citizens to raise hogs and […]
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Saturday, November 9, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, July 16, 1920
Passing of the Horse and the Automobile Age Are Chief Reasons. Extermination War Help. There are fewer houseflies than usual nearly everywhere. It is one of the blessings of a summer in which many pessimists seem to imagine they have nothing to be grateful for. There are several reasons not only explaining this relief from […]
Published in the Waukegan News Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, July 27, 1934
Pet Monkey Is Captured After Upsetting Quiet Lives Of Mike Shelly And Neighbors. After two days and two nights of terror for the household as well as the stock, all today was serene at the Mike Shelly farm near Wadsworth due to the absence of “Dynamite,” a pet monkey that was captured there last night. […]
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, March 29, 1850
Our Savannah and Charleston exchanges furnish detailed accounts of his snakeship, as seen in Broad river, near Beaufort. The steamer ran within thirty feet of it when it sunk. It was described as being from 125 to 150 feet in length, and portions above the water appeared to be from eight to ten feet across. […]
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, March 8, 1850
Hogs have again commenced their depredations upon the side-walks-turning up brick after brick either for amusement or something to eat. It is suggested, in order to protect individual property, that refreshments be furnished hogs at the expense of the city treasury, and that the city fathers provide some way to amuse them other than passing […]
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Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Tuesday, April 30, 1850
Rev. Walter Colton, in his agreeable and christian-like diary of a voyage to California in a man-of-war, entitled “Deck and Port,” [in which by the way, much is mildly and convincingly said against the spirit ration and flogging in the navy,] relates the following capital rat story. I have always felt some regard for a […]
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Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, July 31, 1851
We mentioned some days since the importation into Baltimore of eleven Camels from the Canary Islands. From an article in the New York Herald we learn that they are the property of Messrs. Sands & Howes, the enterprising and well known circus proprietors of that city, who are about establishing an overland route to California. […]
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Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, August 6, 1851
The New York Journal of Commerce says that grass-hoppers have attacked the gardens in South Brooklyn in immense numbers. Boys are employed to destroy them at a cent a hundred. A couple boasted the other day of having killed twenty-five hundred in one yard.
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Tuesday, July 29, 1851
The New York Tribune relates an interesting anecdote of the sagacity of a dog saving the life of a child of Mr. Robinson, of Flatbush, Long Island. This gentleman has two dogs; a small spaniel and a large half-breed deer hound. The small dog was playing with Mr. R.’s child near a cistern, when the […]
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Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, March 5, 1852
The captain of the whale-ship Monongahela, of New Bedford, Massachusetts, has addressed the New York Tribune a long and circumstantial account of the discovery and capture, in the Pacific ocean, of a huge marine monster, having the form of a serpent, with spout holes like a whale, and swimming paws. Its immense size rendered it […]