Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, September 11, 1840
This extraordinary curiosity was discovered about two years since by a party of trappers belonging to Capt. Bent’s company, lying on the side of one of the beaver dams of the Rio Grande of the north, [a stream emptying itself into the gulf of California,] whose water it is said possess the petrifying qualities, in […]
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, June 15, 1833
The Middletown [Conn.] Gazette, furnishes the following case of remarkable presence of mind of the master of a Whale ship, when in a situation of the most imminent peril: Captain Chester, of the Whaling ship Ann Maria, of this place, on her late voyage round the East Cape, met with the following adventure. One of […]
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, July 19, 1918
Carl E. Akeley, Naturalist, Relates Experience of Being Attacked by Massive South African Beast. The hunter and taxidermist, Carl E. Akeley, who has spent a great deal of painstaking effort in preparing the wonderful animal groups at the American Museum of Natural History, is known throughout South Africa as an elephant hunter. He has had […]
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, April 6, 1843
A few days ago, a valuable carriage horse of mine, took suddenly ill on a journey. A professed farrier of the village in which I was compelled to stop, advised bleeding in the mouth, which was done accordingly. But unfortunately, after the animal bled more than a gallon, it was found impossible to stop the […]
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Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, June 7, 1834
An extraordinary story is told by Captain Wallace, of a lover and his mistress, who were saved in a singular manner from the jaws of a shark.-A transport, with part of a regiment on board, was sailing with a gentle breeze along the coast of Colney; one of the officers was leaning over the poop […]
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, March 15, 1834
By James H. Hackett. I never was downhearted but once in my life, and that was on seeing the death of a faithful friend, who lost his life in trying to save mine. The fact is, I was one day making tracks homeward, after a long tramp through one of our forests-my rifle carelessly reasting […]
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, May 17, 1834
A singular incident occurred in this town on Sunday last. It appears that some persons had been amusing themselves by worrying an ox that had been confined in the Wagon Yard for the purpose of being fattened and that they had employed for this purpose an old ragged coat. After he had become much incensed, […]
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Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, June 28, 1834
We find by our exchange papers, that the Locusts made their regular septemdecennial appearance in different parts of the country, with great regularity, on the 25th inst. and although we have seen nothing of them in this city, as yet, we have no reason to expect that they will delay their coming. Their visits in […]
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, September 5, 1835
Mr. Clayton the aeronaut made a splendid ascension at Lexington, Ky. on the 21st. After rising to an altitude of a mile or upwards, and when about two miles from the city. Mr. C. let go a parachute, containing a small dog, which descended very handsomely, and fell on the farm of Robert Wickliffe, Esq. […]
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, August 15, 1835
Not long since, a story, from a Nantucket paper, was published respecting a narrow escape of a young man from the jaws of a whale, in the Pacific Ocean. The following is his letter to his mother: Pacific Ocean. Lat. 5 N. S. Lon. 109 d. W.-Dear Mother-Having a good opportunity to write, I improve […]
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