Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Published in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Thursday, June 9, 1870
Three hundred tons of fish have been taken from Spirit Lake, Iowa, this spring, and one man in the vicinity has bought 300,000 muskrats since January.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Published in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Thursday, June 9, 1870
The St. Charles Michigan Harald says: “J. H. Griffin, of this city, was dangerously bitten by his stallion ‘Black Hawk,’ near the house of Charles Smith, east of St. Charles, on Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Griffin was in the act of getting into his sulky, when the horse made a dive for him, jumping about eight […]
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Published in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Thursday, June 23, 1870
A man lately arrived in Sioux City, Iowa, with 12,000 muskrat, 600 mink, 300 otter, and 500 wolf skins, purchased from the Indians in the vicinity.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Published in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Friday, July 15, 1870
The Secretary of the Treasury on Wednesday week received from San Francisco, California, a box of dead snakes, bugs, flies, and centipedes, a grim looking collection of Chinese reptiles which had been consigned to a firm in that city, by the firm of Yo Chy Tong & Co., of Canton, to be used by the […]
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, November 16, 1872
In Barbary, pacing horses are held in such high estimation that the method of making a spirited trotter shackle like a boat in a chop sea is reduced to a science. To make them rack easily, a ring of lead covered with leather is put around each hoof; a cord from each weight ascends and […]
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, August 2, 1879
Richmond [Va.] Dispatch. The late Isaac White; of Farmington, Albemarle County, told me the following, which he got from Mrs. Marks. Meriwether Lewis, who first explored the Upper Missouri, the Rocky Mountains, and Oregon had started one afternoon to cross the Blue Ridge, and when near the summit was arrested by the spectacle of two […]
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, March 25, 1898
Rapid Decline of One of the Ugliest Beasts on Earth. Florida tourists note a sharp advance in the price of alligator material, and also in the raw material in life. This is owing to the large decrease in the supply. Diminutive live alligators have advanced from 25 cents each to 50 cents, and larger ones […]
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, November 3, 1922
Three Million Prairie Dogs are Wiped Out in 20 Counties in Colorado. By Michael F. Dacey, International News Service, Staff Correspondent Denver, Nov. 3-Sixty tons of poison oats, scattered over farm lands in twenty Colorado counties, has resulted in the distruction of three million prairie dogs, with a saving estimated at approximately $500,000 to farmers […]
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 31, 1900
With his features distorted beyond all human semblance, and his hands and arms swollen and seared, Andrew Schlake, a farmer living north of Nashville, was found wandering about in the swamps along the Okaw river. Myriads of Mosquitoes hovered over him and covered his face and body. Schlake was taken to his home by friends […]
Friday, November 11, 2011
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Sunday, November 25, 1877
Hempstead Tex., Messenger. Some two weeks since a mad dog bit a great many hogs in the Loggins neighborhood, and since then these hogs have gone mad to the number of a dozen. One sow brought forth a litter of pigs, every one of which was mad at birth, and all of which died soon […]