Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, December 3, 1897
    A 500 pound sea turtle, 14 years old, was captured and killed in Chicago harbor by two fishermen. Old lake men say this is the first sea turtle that has ever reached the southern end of Lake Michigan of its own volition.
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, June 7, 1901
    The pickpocket who tried to “pinch” a likely looking man’s pocketbook and found his fingers in the grasp of two snapping turtles was a Japanese. A native traveler in Japan had bought the turtles, and, being afraid that he would be charged heavily for their transportation as live animals on the train, he placed […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 8, 1867
There is at a Nashville brewery a mammoth frog, weighing twelve pounds which is supposed to have attained his enormous size from the nourishment received from the health-giving beverage manufactured at that establishment. He is kept in the cellar, with no companions but his own thoughts, and drinks his regular allowance of lager, with all […]
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Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, March 4, 1910
    “The Shetland peasants, as soon as the cold comes on, turn their ponies out to shift for themselves,” said a horse dealer. “On those high, rocky, barren islands, amid the powerful and cold winds of winter, the ponies live on heather and seaweed, and it is indubitable that in their hunger they even scour […]
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Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 5, 1910
Jenness Tried to Scare Animal but is Kicked from Machine. Â Â Â Â Logansport, Ind., Aug. 3.-Clyde Jenness took his sweetheart for a ride on his tandem motor cycle and seeing a mule standing in the roadway, he let on the gasoline and opened wide the exhaust. Â Â Â Â “Watch him run,” he said, but when the mule […]
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Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, February 2, 1912
    Three years ago a woman farmer in Wales sold a pony to her son, who resides some twenty-five miles away between Rhuddian and Rhyl. The pony has for the third time found its way back to its former home, managing to unfasten two gates in order to do so.
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Published in the Belvidere Standard, Belvidere, Illinois on Tuesday, June 2, 1863
    There is now in Wheeling a mule whose remarkable career is deserving of some notice. This mule was drafted into the army shortly after the rebellion exhibited to full view its gigantic head, and was afterwards transferred to the famous Jackass Battery. He was engaged in the battle of McDowell, Cross Keys, and followed […]
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Thursday, October 6, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 6, 1882
    A Montana mule standing near a magazine of giant powder when it exploded was hurled end overend seventy-five feet to the bottom of the dump pile on which he stood. When the smoke cleared away he stood quietly picking the bunch grass not in the least disturbed. He had lifted people like that himself […]
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, September 7, 1921
Merits of Patient Creatures Have Been Sung by Poets and Depicted by Painters. The “common or garden” donkey is one of the most laughed-at animals, and few of us pause to think what a figure this stubborn but patient creature has made in literature, art, and history. The very first picture the visitor to the […]
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, December 7, 1922
By International News Service     Cork, Ireland, Dec. 7-Izaak Walton has no modern champion, and so fish stories are giving way to golf stories.     J. W. McEvoy drove off the third tee at the middleton links and his ball entered the ear of a donkey on the course. The donkey stood still for a […]
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