Saturday, September 14, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, May 16, 1851
A mad hog has been playing antics in the streets of Cleveland.
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Saturday, September 14, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Monday, April 14, 1851
The following incident is related by the Long Point, Advocate:-A few days since, as we were leaving our residence on our usual morning visit to the Advocate office, a sorrel horse belonging to us, galloped up and caught my arm, and made an attempt to pull us in the direction he wished to go. He […]
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Saturday, September 14, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Tuesday, April 1, 1851
We are glad to learn that Mr. S. B. June, whom we formerly announced as having to come from America for a cargo of elephants, has succeeded in procuring the object of his search. Mr. June, a perfect stranger to the country, went into the interior, and succeeded in picking up between 20 and 30 […]
Saturday, August 31, 2013
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 21, 1903
Montana Girl Had a Narrow Escape from an Awful Fate. Chased for more than a mile by a pack of wild dogs, Miss Gertie Sullivan, daughter of a sheep man living on Birch creek, near Havre, Mont., escaped only by spending the night in an old corral and picking off the animals now and then […]
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Saturday, August 31, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 27, 1903
In Race of Several Miles West of Town. Rigs Unable to Overtake Him. Fellow was Apparently Demented-Ran Far and Fast with no Apparent Reason. Strange and as apparently impossible as it may seem, a man apparently demented won a race against several horses over a distance of about eight miles, or from Odett’s corners, near […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 17, 1898
The Strange Story Told in Scotland of the Remarkable Conduct of a Sea Animal. A gentleman residing in Broughty Ferry, who owns a yacht, took a run down the river the other day, accompanied by some friends, for the purpose of having a seal hunt, says the Edinburgh Dispatch. On the banks at the mouth […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 18, 1898
Three Thousand Horses and Mules Create Havoc Among the Soldiers at Tampa, Fla. Washington, June 17.-A special to the post from Tampa, Fla., says: At ten o’clock Thursday night 3,000 horses and mules broke from the corrals and stampeded through the camps of Gen. Carpenter’s brigade. It was so dark and the excitement was so […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, April 23, 1898
St. Louis, April 19.-A telegram from Washington states that the war department has just ordered the purchase of 1,800 mules in addition to the 1,000 ordered last week. The mules are to be used as pack animals for carrying supplies over roads in Cuba where the army wagons cannot be drawn. All the mules purchased […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 4, 1899
Police Dog Saved the Life of a Drunkard. Anybody who threw a cane at a policeman would naturally expect to be reprimanded. Likewise “Peck, officer, No. 8” will stand no fooling from offenders. If in his judgement you are not doing as you ought to do, look out for “Peck”, the police dog, who is, […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 29, 1898
About three O’clock Sunday afternoon people passing down Genesee street near Wheeler’s book store were terrified to see a little fellow knocked down by a horse and trampled on, the horse steeping on his head and arm. Passersby were even more surprised to see him get up and run away as if unhurt after he […]
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