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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, July 13, 1904
Wisconsin Woman Changes She Was Forced to Display Culinary Art on Feline Instead of Rabbit. Racine, Wis., July 13.-Judge Belden, of the circuit court has granted a divorce to Mattie J. Spaulding from Dr. J. Spaulding one of the most prominent physicians of Kenosha. Mrs. Spaulding was married in 1903, and she alleges that within […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, April 7, 1909
Six Steamers Held Fast in Ice Since Twenty-First of March. St. Johns, N. F., April 7.-though the sealing season in the Gulf of St. Lawrence has not been an utter failure, St. Johns sealers have had a rough time. The catch totals about 136,500. Since March 31 the steamers Bellaventure, Bonaventure, Boethic, Virginia Lake, Adventure […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, November 12, 1898
The Unusual Exchange That Was Made by Two New Jersey Women. Any mother knows the comparative value of a baby and a puppy dog. It is infinity to nothing. Yet in Newark, N. J., a deal has been consummated in which a real, live, plump, pretty chunk of humanity was swapped by its mother for […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, November 12, 1898
How a Hindoo Can Tell When the Animal Intends to Destroy Him. Few more impressive confidences can be imparted than one in which a Hindoo describes how he knows his elephant intends to destroy him. It is all so seemingly trivial, and yet in reality of such deadly significance. His story is full of details […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, December 14, 1897
A Market for the Dog Pounds of Large Cities Will be Utilized by the Alaskan Miner-Chicago’s Contribution. [Copyright, 1837.] L. H. Lewis, a lawyer of Seattle, has recently formed what he calls the Seattle Yukon Dog company, whose agents will travel through the states, purchasing by wholesale the lost, strayed or stolen animals that are […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, January 17, 1899
Kankakee, Ill., Jan. 17.-Twenty-eight head of cattle and 18 horses were burned Sunday night with the barn of T. J. Clark, two miles west of here. Loss, $5,000; insurance, $2,000.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, August 24, 1898
They Are Increasing So Rapidly in Brooklyn’s Greenwood That a Trapper May Be Called In. Greenwood cemetery is suffering for the second time in its history from too great increase in its colony of chipmunks. Eighteen years ago they became such a nuisance that a trapper was employed, and 28,000 small, stripped pelts were the […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, October 25, 1910
Italian Hunter Pursued by Sixteen Rattlesnakes is Bitten by One in Finger and Acts as Own Surgeon. Newburgh, N. Y., Oct. 24.- Arthur J. Sarventi, a well-to-do cigar dealer of this place, went to Pike county, Pennsylvania, last week in quest of deer. One day, a short distance from Eldred, while following some deer, he […]
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Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Sunday, June 8, 1890
Roscoe Franklin of Brockton, Mass., owns a bay horse, known by the name of Shiloh, that is possessed of a peculiar accomplishment. Mr. Franklin’s stable, a rather old building, is infested by rats that give the horses much trouble, stealing their food and making themselves pests generally. It began to be observed a short time […]
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, August 8, 1885
Port Jarvis, [N.Y.] Gazette: “I never lie about snakes,” Warren replied. Do you remember that about three years ago a collision occurred on the Delaware division to a train carrying O’Brien’s circus and menagerie, and that the snake cage was demolished, and two or three snakes escaped in the darkness. Well, one of these snakes […]
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