Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, April 15, 1899
Woman Who Can Subdue the King of Beasts, Is Divorced from a Browbeating Husband. Kansas City, Mo., April 15.-Charlotte Wilhelmina Gertrude Bishop, otherwise known as Mme. Piancka, the lion tamer, appeared in the divorce court here Friday and was legally separated from her husband, H. H. Bishop, a resident of New York. Mme. Piancka, who […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, December 2, 1898
An Instance Which Shows That Dumb Beasts Can Be as Kind as Men. A herd of wild Asian buffaloes will charge any foe, even a tiger, to save the life of one of their number who has been wounded. Elephants, baboons and other animals will do the same in a wild state. On the other […]
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Sunday, June 8, 1890
The two lines were facing one another, with only a short distance separating them. A farmer rode into the Confederate camp on a mule. Most of the soldiers had been farmers and were good judges of horseflesh, so that in conversation with the old farmer the merits and demerits of the mule came up naturally […]
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Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, September 12, 1913
Capt. A. A. Walker Locates the Leader of Chicken Thief Gang at Kenosha. Did It On Wholesale Plan. Not Contented With Taking a Few at a Time, Gang Took Up to Fifty at Once. The wholesale chicken thefts that have been so sorely perplexing Zion City people for the last few weeks have come to […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, November 3, 1910
Indiana Farmer Drives Into Barn, Horses Hoofs Hit Flint-Blaze. Lawrenceburg, Ind., Nov.3.-When George W. Hayes, a farmer, three miles north of here, drove a team to his barn, the steel shoes of the horses came in contact with several Indian arrow heads that were on the floor. The striking of the steel and flint caused […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, August 15, 1907
Tale of an Egg That Has the Ordinary Fisherman’s Yarn Beaten Badly. Peoria, Ill., Aug.15.-This is not a fish story. It is the tale of an egg of tremendous size and of peculiar shape-a sort of prize box, as it were, for until the owner opened it he had no idea of the surprise that […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 27, 1912
Three years ago a woman farmer in Wales sold a pony to her son, who resides some twenty-five miles away between Rhuddian and Rhyl. The pony has for the third time found its way back to its former home managing to unfasten two gates in order to do so.
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Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, January 8, 1915
Waukegan, Jan. 4. Anton Skermon, who conducts a barber shop on Spring street, just north of the Edmund Hotel, owes his life to his pet dog who awakened him early Sunday morning just in the nick of time to escape death in a fire which had broken out in his flat just over his place […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, November 1, 1909
The natives of Tutulia, one of the islands of Oceania, have a peculiar method of catching fish. At a given signal all the inhabitants of the village assemble on the seashore to the number of 200 persons, each one carrying a branch of the cocoa palm. With these in their hands they plunge into the […]
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Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, July 4, 1913
As the result of an adder bite, recently, the back of the hand of a Cardiff [Wales] boy named J. W. Coffy has become marked like an adder. The physician who was attending the case states that the skin and swollen flesh near the bite are like a piece of leather, pigmented exactly the same […]
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