Friday, December 28, 2012
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, February 28, 1902
They tried to Uproot Tree in Which Hunter Had Taken Refuge. J. P. McGee, of this place, has just had an experience that has thickly flecked his auburn hair with grey. He is an ardent sportsman, and early Christmas morning hastened to that sportsman’s paradise, Cookson, on the Illinois. His luck was good, and by […]
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Thursday, December 27, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, August 9, 1848
About the moment of the Cambria’s departure from Liverpool last Saturday, a dreadful occurrence was taking place at the Zoological Gardens near that town. As one of the keepers was engaged in his usual office of cleaning out the den of the Elephant “Rajah,” he struck the animal a blow with the broom to make […]
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, August 15, 1844
During the voyage of the U. S. sloop of war Saratoga to the island of St. Thomas, off the coast of Africa, May 24th, the coxswain in charge of the tiller, broke it and fell overboard. While in the act of swimming towards the ship, he was seen suddenly to disappear, and thereupon the fins […]
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Thursday, December 27, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Thursday, June 27, 1844
In the village of Pottsville, Pa., a few weeks since, a handbill, of which the following is a copy, was posted up for public perusal: The Fox and the Coon! Grand Contest! A grand contest between a little red Fox, and a real live Coon, the representative of Van Buren and Clay, will be had […]
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, July 31, 1845
The waters of the Francisco Bay, and especially of some of the rivers which enter it, are thronged with aquatic fowls of every description, beyond estimation, computation or description. A gunner can obtain feathers enough in a day for a large bed-and fowls enough to last him two months. They will not spoil for that […]
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Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, March 9, 1894
A Western Man’s Tale of a Buffalo Hunt. It happened in the winter of 1869-70, began the old hunter and plainsman, when the subject of buffaloes was brought up. It was a bad winter in my country and the mercury was well down on the short-cut to China. The buffaloes had taken refuge in mighty […]
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 4, 1859
The express train on the New Albany $ Salem road ran into a drove of Cattle near Reynold’s station, in Indiana, throwing the engine bottom up into the ditch, but not until it had made mince meat of 14 of the bovines. Fortunately no person was injured by the accident.
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, February 2, 1832
The weather and the depth of the snow for a few days past have been strong temptations to many of our citizens to enjoy the sport of running down prairie wolves. [coyotes] The sportsman mounts his horse, and with a good “hickory” club, pursues the animal into the prairies, where he generally overtakes, and despatches […]
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Thursday, August 2, 1832
The battering train going to the siege of Seringapatam had to cross the sandy bed of a river, that resembled other rivers of the Peninsula, which have during the dry season, but a small stream of water running through them, though their beds are mostly of a considerable breadth, very heavy for draught, and abounding […]
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, September 5, 1844
In a neighborhood of Hereford, England, recently a swarm of bees settled under the bonnet of a little girl, down the side of her face, and round her throat. Fortunately the child stood still, and the bees were hived without her receiving a single sting.
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