Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, April 5, 1907
    A hen belonging to Chas. Woolridge of Libertyville is an ardent disciple of the frenzied life. Twice recently she has laid eggs with three complete yolks inside. The eggs, nearly six inches long, measure over a foot in circumference measuring around the tips.     All the hens in the neighboring henneries have given up […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily News, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, October 5, 1906
    While Abe Diamond was driving across the Chicago & Northwestern tracks at Madison street, east side, this morning, his horse became frightened at a passing engine and turned completely around in the harness, unhitching himself with the exception of one tug.     The junk dealer now claims the possession of the champion trick horse […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, January 30, 1912
Several women injured as Result of Scramble for Strickly New Produce. Â Â Â Â Superior, Wis.,-Jan. 30.-An auction of several dozen fresh eggs caused such a scramble of women that many suffered pulled hair, torn clothing, and bruises. Â Â Â Â Some even climbed to the windows of the building where the eggs were being sold. The eggs were […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 10, 1880
    The smartest Newfoundland dog yet discovered lives at Haverhill, Mass. He meets the newsboy at the gate every morning and carries his master’s paper into the house, that is, he did so the other day, when his master stopped taking the paper. The next morning the dog noticed the boy passing on the other […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 10, 1880
Groton [N. Y.] Journal. Â Â Â Â We think that A. H. Clark has the sheep that stands No. 1, as far as sagacity is concerned. It is a male, and during the summer was pastured with some calves in an apple-crchard adjoining the residence. There were several trees in the orchard well loaded with early fruit. […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 7, 1880
The steel works of the Lackawanna Iron & Coal Company at Scranton have the reputation of being well managed, and as free from accident as any similar establishment in the United States, but for all that the mill is not free from superstitious. While visiting the works a few evenings ago, and watching the glow […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 19, 1875
    It seems that in some parts of Minnesota an attempt has really been made to destroy the grasshoppers by killing them. Counties have offered bounties, and the people have gathered in the pests by the hundred bushels, diminishing the number of devourers very sensibly, and enabling farmers and their families to earn good wages. […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 10, 1880
Springfield [Mass.] Republican. Â Â Â Â Mrs. Augustus Brooks, of East Eliot, Conn., has a cat thirteen years old, which will stand up when ordered, bow quickly or slowly, as directed, walk around the room on her hind legs only, dance, turn somersaults, go through the motions of holding a jew’s-harp in her mouth with one paw […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 24, 1880
    The Illinois Central Railroad has a rule that dogs shall not ride in a passeger car; but a big and ferocious bull-dog walked into a car in Chicago, appropriated a whole seat, and rode 300 miles unmolested. “He had such a meaning smile,” explained the conductor.
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 31, 1880
    Albany Argus     Jack is the name of a bull-terrier dog that has been considered as a sort of an attache for a number of years by the American Express Company’s office in this city. About two years ago this dog Jack took a trip westward, and has ever since been on his travels. […]
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