Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Sunday, December 27, 1857
In a hump-backed whale, which was driven ashore at Nahant a short time since, a pair of boots marked “J.” were found in a good state of preservation. The Charleston Advertiser suggests that they might have been left behind by Jonah, when he made his sudden exit from the whale.
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, August 17, 1922
    A diver, working off the Australian coast, had an odd adventure. A 12-foot shark came nosing up to him, and as its rough hide might have damaged his suit, he held the point of his steel “jumper” toward the intruder. This seemed to be just what the shark wanted, and he rubbed himself against […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, October 3, 1922
By International News Service. Â Â Â Â Niles, Mich., Oct. 3.-Arthur Gregg, youthful fisherman of Niles, accounted for four deeply lacerated toes by explaining that a 3-foot pike seized them as they dangled in the water from a boat in which he was fishing. He was pulling a bluegill in past by his bare foot when the […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, November 22, 1922
By International News Service. Â Â Â Â Milton, Fla., Nov. 22-W. F. Monroe is the boss fisherman of this section. He threw his casting rod into Clear Creek and began to haul it in when he got a “strike”. The work was a bit harder than usual. Four wriggling speckled trout were trying to get free when […]
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Thursday, October 13, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 28, 1874
The bark Kate Williams, Captain Hale, of the regular packet line between Boston and Fayal, which arrived at Boston on Friday last, had a remarkable escape on her passage. The Boston “Journal” thus described the incident. “About nine o’clock one morning a seaman aloft cried out that there was a whale on the port bow. […]
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Thursday, October 13, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, January 5, 1912
Novel Exhibition With Trout is Given by an Expert to Uphold This Theory. Â Â Â Â An expert in fish culture, who believes that fish have memories, gave a novel exhibition to support his theory. Â Â Â Â In one of the enclosed pools at the hatchery under his charge there was a very large trout which always came […]
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 9, 1879
    Mr. James P. Simmons, of Redbone, district, had a narrow and peculiar escape the other day. He was fishing on the Flint River, and had attempted to swim across to get a batean from the opposite side. About half way over the stream he stopped on a root or tree to rest. After remaining […]
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Saturday, October 8, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, April 1, 1910
School of Shad Disturbs Water For Acres at Buck Roe. Three Hauls Made and Fully 15,000 Fish Are Taken From Nets-Best Catch On Record. Â Â Â Â Norfolk, March 30.-Rifflings which covered acres of water at Buck Roe beach on the Chesapeake, first surprised patient fishermen there and then astonished them as the disturbance reached their seines […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, October 24, 1918
Infrequency of Such Events More to be wondered at Than Fact That They Occur. Probably the most remarkable thing about the many reported showers of such objects as fish, frogs, toads and the like is the skepticism with which the accounts of these occurrences are greeted. The wonder is, observes a writer, not that they […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, October 19, 1922
    Athens, Ohio, Oct. 19-A turtle bearing the inscription “A. H. 1831” has been found on the Hewitt Farm west of here. It is stated by old settlers that the same turtle has been wandering over this farm for nearly half a century.