Monday, September 17, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 22, 1877
The Naturalist publishes some additional evidence relative to the destruction of birds by telegraph wires. An observer writes from Iowa: “Many prairie-chickens [Cupiaonia cupido] are annually destroyed in this way. In December 1868, near Cambridge, Story county, Iowa, I saw many of these birds lying dead in the snow, beneath the line of the telegraph, […]
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Monday, September 17, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 30, 1878
Two or three men and various dogs having been devoured by sharks off Melbourne, Australia, the Government offered a reward for the capture of these fish, and 3,000 were caught in one week; but inasmuch as the reward was at the rate of one shilling a foot, and no reward is given for sharks under […]
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Monday, September 17, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 7, 1886
Oregon pays a bounty of 2 cents for every squirrel killed, and one man was recently paid for 125,000 squirrel tails which he had collected.
Monday, September 17, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 10, 1886
Cairo, Ill., July 5.-Ballard county, Kentucky, is in a wild state of excitement over a singular and fatal malady which has taken possession of her cows. They first go wild and frantic, fighting and making war upon everything in sight, with tongues lolling out and eyes bulging and bloodshot, finally dying in twenty to thirty […]
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Monday, September 17, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, March 13, 1876
Mr. Thomas J. Roach of San Jose, California, reports having purchased several months ago, a lot of fine cropple-crowns which he kept aloof from his less aristocratic fowls, in a small yard. The chief of his family was a large, black bird of an exceeding haughty disposition. He was monarch of all he surveyed till […]
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 13, 1886
Nearly two thousand persons assembled at Rhinebeck, N. Y., to witness the killing of a famous fat hog and bet on his weight. When dressed, he scored 888 and one-half pounds.
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Thursday, September 13, 2012
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, December 9, 1904
Appalling List of Fatalities During Deer Hunting Season. One hunter was killed or wounded for every sixty-five deer killed in the north woods of Wisconsin and northern Michigan in the hunting season which has just closed. Forty-two nimrods were either slain outright or died from their wounds, many of them being shot down by overzealous […]
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Thursday, September 13, 2012
Published in the Waukegan DailySun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, December 15, 1922
A rope made of 3,000 gopher [ground squirrel tails was recently on display at the office of the Montana extension director, awaiting shipment to the biological survey of the United States Department of Agriculture. The rope was made by the Blackfeet Indian chief Split-Ear, and his tribal assistants, who live near Browning, in Glacier county, […]
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Published in the Waukegan DailySun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, May 8, 1896
A prize of $250 for a method of inoculating squirrels with some contagious fatal disease is offered by the Commercial Association of Pendleton, Ore., and it is believed the county authorities will add to the sum offered. The farmers of that region are at their wits end as to how to mitigate the plague of […]
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 20, 1869
The following story has a “moral” which those who have watched the progress of the recent session of the General Assembly, as regards railway legislation may possibly appreciate. A very curious railroad accident happened recently in India. A large elephant, seeing the red light and smoke, concluded the noisy locomotive was an enemy to be […]