Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, January 12, 1898
    There has been quite an excitement in this section caused by mad dogs. Geeorge Eatenger’s dog became rabid and killed seventy-five of their chickens then left and cannot be found. He passed through McHenry and had several fights with dogs in that place. The people of McHenry did not know he was mad. Mr. […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 21, 1885
[Lieut. Schwatka in St. Nicholas.] Â Â Â Â You boys who have a favorite Carlo or Nero at home may like to know something about the Esquimau dogs; asking what they have to eat, and whether, like your own favorites, they get three meals a day and any number of intermediate lunches. No doubt you will think […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, April 4, 1885
[Detroit Free Press.] Â Â Â Â Immediately upon a whale being harpooned, he sounds, that is, goes under water at lightning speed, as does also the line to which he is attached, making it necessary to throw water upon it to prevent it from taking fire from the friction. It has been claimed that whales can run […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 31, 1880
    Major-General Bisset, C. B., in his work entitled “Sport and War in Africa,” gives an interesting illustration of the use of these as food: “About the year 1830 some of the dispersed native tribes from the interior of Africa migrated into the Cape Colony to seek employment among the farmers. My father engaged one […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 28, 1907
    W. F. James, an Arkansas sawmillman and planter, relates a turtle story which he says occured near his home recently. Jim Gullick heard a pig squealing and upon investigation found that a large turtle had come up out of the water, had seized a pig and was dragging its victim back to the water […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 28, 1907
Antlered Animal Knocks Bicyclist Off His Wheel. Â Â Â Â Bewildered and crazed by the flaring light on an approaching bicycle ridden by Winfield B. Gorton of Sayville, N. Y., an antlered buck which was trotting peacefully along the highway near the Cutting estate halted and then charged the oncoming rider with all his strength. Young Gorton […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, April 20, 1880
    Silas Reeves was killed in Pennsylvania recently by a falling tree. Silas Reeves, or “Uncle Sile.” as he was known throughout Northern Pennsylvania, was one of the most remarkkable characters in the State. He was seventy years of age, and for nearly sixty years he had been a hunter, trapper and fisherman, and claimed […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, April 17, 1880
    A strange and nearly fatal fight between a child and an eagle took place in Pearson County, N. C. The three-year-old child of Mr. Wm. Murry was sitting on a stile feeding chickens when a large eagle swooped down at the chickens, scattering them in all directions. As the child was moving off the […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 29, 1880
    During the year 1879, 10,281 horses, 529 asses and 26 mules, giving 4,135,700 pounds of meat, were sold for consumption in Paris; and on the 1st of January last seventy-eight butchers shops for the sale of that article of food were in full operation.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 29, 1880
  It was found necessaryn Sunday last to repair the polar bear water tank at the zoo, and for the purpose the brown bears were driven into the right compartments, so that their pit could be occupied by the white bears temporarily. One of the iron doors of the compartment not being fully closed, one […]
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