Saturday, December 9, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, June 2, 1853
Something more than one hundred dogs have been killed by the city authorities within the last thirty-six hours.-Galena Jeffersonian.
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Saturday, December 9, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, March 9, 1853
Three of the Chinca Islands, on the coast of Peru, on which guano (crap) is deposited by birds, are said to contain two hundred and fifty millions of tons of the manure, worth one thousand two hundred and fifty million pound sterling, or upwards of seven thousand millions of dollars.
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Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, April 7, 1853
The terrible accident which happened a short time since in Boston, from the running away of a horse, frightened by the approach of a locomotive, has set inquiry to work to find out the best mode of preventing such a catastrophe in similar cases. A correspondent of Boston Transcript, who has observed the mode adopted […]
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Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, April 20, 1853
The incursions of bears and wolves into settled parts of Norway and Sweden, are described as having been frightful during the winter just passed. The bears come fearlessly into the villages and the smaller peasant settlements in Norway, break into the cattle enclosures, kill the oxen and cows and feast themselves whole nights through; while […]
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, November 29, 1907
Vernon Baily, of the forest reserve bureau at Washington, who has been making an investigation of the ravages of wolves on the ranches of the southwest, reports that in a certain part of New Mexico he learned that a moderate estimate of the stock killed by four wolves of which he got trace was a […]
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Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, April 29, 1910
Last week when a horse belonging to E. DeMeyer of North Chicago became seriously ill and began to cough and choke it was not known what was the matter with it and as fears for death were entertained a veterinary was called. The veterinary at once said that the animal had eaten something in the […]
Thursday, November 16, 2017
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, May 12, 1909
Express Wagon Driver and Street Car Conductor Battle in Wagon. Chicago, May 12.-Fighting back and forth in an express wagon, which a runaway horse was dragging toward the open drawbridge, two men were saved from death through the heroic efforts of a city fireman. The rescued men were Joseph Chouse, owner of the express wagon, […]
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Thursday, November 16, 2017
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, June 8, 1910
F. W. Dubbs, Farmer, is Found Dead in Tree of Fright. Colt Kicks Another to Death and Horse Bites a Woman-Cow Knocks Woman Down-Rescued. Pittsburg, Pa., June 8.-Perils of farm life are reported in dispatches from rural communities in this and neighboring states. F. W. Dubbs, a farmer near Lisbon, O., had a battle with […]
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 16, 1901
William Hess, a wealthy citizen of Evansville, Ind. was in police court on the charge of cruelty to animals. His neighbor has a calf and the other night Hess could not sleep for the calf’s bawling, so he tied the mouth up with a rope. The judge released Hess, saying he believed he would have […]
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Wednesday, November 8, 2017
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, August 12, 1907
A rat three inches long paralyzed the electric lighting system of Stamford, Conn., and put the town in darkness for twenty-four hours. Climbing a guy wire fifty feet long, the rat reached a conduit carrying 10,000 volts of electricity. It placed its front feet on the charged wire and instantly diverted the current through its […]
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