Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, October 13, 1908
Cincinnati, Oct. 17.-A battle for life took place before the eyes of hundreds of spectators in the Auditorium theater, between the “Great Swan,” trainer of alligators, and Nell, the largest reptile in his group of eight. The attack was made by the alligator in the large tank in the center of the stage. But for […]
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, September 20, 1909
George Devine, teamster and scavenger, lay in a field on Eleventh street beyond the west side car line from 9 o’clock last night until 7 o’clock this morning, a fallen horse on his leg and with the member broken below the knee and giving him excruciating pain that at times caused consciousness to flicker out. […]
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Published in the Sangamo Journal-, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, July 5, 1834
From Jackson’s Travels. Locusts in Africa are produced from some unknown physical cause, and proceed from the desert, always coming from the south. When they visit a country, it behoves every individual to lay in provision against a famine; for they are said to stay three, five, or seven years. During my residence in West […]
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, December 30, 1847
The most remarkable case of intelligence and tractability in swine of which we have heard, is of a sow trained to hunt, an account of which is given in the following extract from Daniel’s Rural Sports: “Toomer [formerly one of the king’s keepers in the new forest, afterwards game keeper to Sir Henry Mildmay] broke […]
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Thursday, January 10, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 12, 1906
Despite the verdict of farmers generally that the crow is a blackleg and a thief, the farmers’ bulletin of the U. S. department of agriculture rather takes the part of Mr. Crow. Nevertheless, without the dash and brilliancy of the jay, or the bold savagery of the hawk, the crow is accused of doing more […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, April 27, 1906
Knocked down by a dog, Waldemar Bjork, of Tenth street, had the tip of his nose and one finger bitten off by the raging and frothing animal and both wounds were cauterized by Dr. Bellows late yesterday afternoon to prevent hydrophobia. The dog is noted as an ugly one, and young Bjork, with other boys, […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, April 26, 1906
For swinging a monkey round his head by its tail, George Brown, a showman, was sentenced to twenty-eight days imprisonment in Liverpool.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, September 10, 1906
Mr. Cain of Galiano Island, British Columbia, had an exciting experience with some deer. While out in his boat for a row he noticed three deer swimming across Whaler’s bay. He gave chase and headed them up a narrow inlet, at the head of which was a steep bluff of rocks with a flat mud […]
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Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, August 18, 1832
A friend from West Hartford informs us that a drove of nearly two thousand rats, were seen early one morning last week, on their way from this city. They had been driven away, doubtless, by chloride of lime, the smell of which these long tailed individuals seem particularly to abominate. The gardens and roads about […]
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Saturday, January 5, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, April 17, 1907
Trout Killed with a Hammer Masked Lake Fishermen. “I wore a woolen mask when I caught that fish,” said the angler, pointing to a mounted specimen above the sideboard, “and the thermometer registered 12 degrees below zero at the time. It was lake Michigan. On the lakes the summer fishing will aggregate 130,000,000 pounds a […]
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