Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, September 19, 1921
An English farmer was recently hauled into court and fined on the charge of keeping a place for the purpose of cock fighting, but he made the defense that the sport as indulged in at his place was not an offense within the law, as the birds fought with boxing gloves instead of spurs.
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, November 29, 1879
St. Petersburg, Russia. Oct. 7, about 7 a. m., the peasants from the adjoining villages had collected together at a fair which was held at the settlement of Darvenkoff, District of Izume, and the male portion of the assembly had dispersed to the drinking shops to make bargains and drink each others’ healths, leaving the […]
Saturday, September 29, 2012
Published in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Thursday, August 17, 1871
‘We learn from Julius Linstedt, one of our patrons in Mishicott, that the farmers in that town have had killed within the last five or six weeks 265 sheep, and they have been unable thus far to find what animal is doing the mischief, as they are all killed in the same manner and left […]
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, April 10, 1886
Ray Kahler, a 7-year-old son of Myron Kahler, a Rockville farmer was assaulted by a sow one day last week and seriously injured. The little fellow was running across a lot in which the animal with her brood of young pigs was kept, when the sow attacked him in a number of places. He succeeded […]
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 20, 1878
Texas snake story related by the Dallas Commercial: Mr. Walters and his wife were returning to the city, in a two-horse buggy, from a trip into the country. About seven miles from town, on the Mansfield road, they passed a snake that was lying on the side of the road, the great size of which […]
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 22, 1878
The black snake is the bitter enemy of the rattlesnake. When they meet, a fight takes place, and the black snake generally conquers. A correspondent of the Forest and Stream thus describes a combat which he saw between two of these snakes. In the middle of the road lay an ordinary black snake, and quite […]
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, November 9, 1878
Two butchers at Sunderland, England, have been sent to prison for three months at hard labor, for butchering a dog and selling the flesh to their customers for mutton, and as several large dogs have been missing of late, it is thought this was not their first offense.
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Monday, September 24, 2012
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, June 23, 1888
The two and one-half year old daughter of Thomas Barrett is lying ill at her father’s house, No. 51 Ohio street, from the effects of an attack made on her Thursday afternoon by a game chicken, the property of Patrick Crowley. Little Sarah, while playing in the backyard, saw the vicious little gamecock fly over […]
Friday, September 21, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, May 18, 1921
Don’t Wear Out Your Pencils, Folks-Here’s The Figure: 55,000,000,000,000,000. Cost Was Only $110.00. Residents of the city are asked to comply with the request of the lieutenants in the anti-fly and mosquito campaign and place on display on their premises the “Good Neighbor” cards which are being distributed. During the two weeks that the school […]
Friday, September 21, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 4, 1878
In the steppes of Russia it is not rare to see a two-year-old colt rush singly to attack a band of four or five wolves, kill one of them, lame the rest, and spread the terror of his name throughout the country. The wild horse strikes with his fore feet, like the stag, and not […]
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