Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, January 3, 1906
C. H. Brantley Smashes Long Accepted Theory That Wolf Family Cannot Be Caught. Has A Fox Which Will Obey Like Dog. Will Lie Down, Jump Through a Hoop and do Other Things. It has always been considered that to tame a fox, a wolf or an animal of the wolf family, or a common cotton […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, August 13, 1907
Bloomington, Ill., Aug. 13.-A monument is planned for a chicken belonging to O. L. McCord of Vermillion county. It has just died, aged 12 years. It was to be the champion of champions, having won first prize at eight successive state fairs and also at the Pan-American exposition.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, August 21, 1911
The old Romans Did it by Devouring Two Rats a Month. If it be true that ancient remedies are always the best, it may be of interest to those afflicted with dental troubles to know how the ancient Romans dealt with such ills. The Quirites [citizens of ancient Rome] recognized two types of treatment. The […]
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, August 24, 1911
Starved and Footsore Finds Way Back to Chicago From Indiana, Where It Was Lost For Two Months. Chicago, Aug. 24.-It’s a walk of 287 miles from Evansville, Ind., to Chicago and there aren’t any sign posts on the way that a dog can read, but this is the trip that John Cummings, janitor of the […]
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, October 16, 1911
Twenty-five hundred persons were bitten by dogs in New York city during the first eight months of the present year, according to the returns received by the department of health. Of those bitten 1,850 were males and 650 females. Children were the greatest sufferers-1,800 as against 700 adults. Twenty-five persons were bitten more than once. […]
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, December 4, 1911
Labadist missionaries in America wrote to Europe in 1697 that they had eaten oysters a foot long. They said they were very palatable and fully as good as the English variety. An early writer states he had seen oysters thirteen inches in length in Virginia, where in 1609 many of the famished settlers found in […]
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, October 21, 1907
Woods had only five all told but the President got all he saw. Only one shot by his own rifle. Goes into the bush for bruin and shoots straight.-Other big game is killed. Stamboul, La., Oct. 21.-“We got three bears, six deer, one wild turkey, twelve squirrels, one duck, one possum and one wildcat. We […]
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, August 21, 1911
Cudahy Packing Plant Suffers Damage to Amount of $200,000. South Omaha, Aug. 21.-Fire in the plant of the Cudahy Packing company in this city caused a loss of $200,000. From the Cudahy plant the fire spread to the Union stockyards plant and hog pens to the value of $50,000 were burned. Those pens were filled […]
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, August 6, 1907
Some time ago a northern golfer drove a ball a fine, low, skimming shot across a river. Just as the ball was nearly over a salmon leaped at the ball and caught it in its mouth. Such was the pace of the ball that it carried the salmon on to the river’s bank, where it […]
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, January 9, 1906
An elephant of a traveling circus managed to get loose the other day and went for a walk up Bubbling Well road, finally entering a garden where a lady was sitting on a veranda, when the intelligent animal broke some flowers and handed them to her and then dropped on his knees. He was evidently […]