Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, December 9, 1921
Clever Woman’s Confidence in Her Pet “Biddy” Proved to Be Abundantly Justified. Â Â Â Â There was an old woman who lived not in a shoe but on a farm in New Hampshire. She made a contract to deliver two dozen fresh eggs to an anaemic family from New York who were building up on milk and […]
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, December 14, 1922
Miner Tells Of Miraculous Escape From Death. As Instrument of Preserving Man From Dreadful End, Animal Was Honored by Community. Â Â Â Â This true story of the almost miraculous rescue of a man imprisoned in the shaft of a lead mine was told to the writer, Cora Cole McCullough, by a member of her family. We […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, December 29, 1921
How Leghorn Procured a Large Family Without the Formality of Hatching Them. Â Â Â Â The fox is no cleverer than a Leghorn hen. So at least thinks one reader of the companion who has read the numerous stories that it has printed to illustrate the cleverness of foxes. To justify her opinion she tells a story […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, December 11, 1922
Reptile Seemed to Have Small Chance Against the Little though Fierce Birds. Â Â Â Â We soon found that there were two sparrow-hawks about, and by the 7th of March it seemed evident that they were mated and were considering the locality as a summer residence. Â Â Â Â We now saw them almost daily, and the perfect domestic […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, November 5, 1897
Only Rooster in Georgia That Has a Tombstone Over His Grave. Enlisting at Culperer, Va., He Served Under Major Williams In Many Battles. A sentinel In a Tree-How He Betrayed Jim Nessmith. Â Â Â Â “While we were camped near Culpeper Court House in the fall of 1862,” said Major Tom Williams, “I became acquainted with a […]
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 16, 1879
    Among the baggage coming down on a Flint & Pere Marquette train, the other day, was a full-grown black bear. Bruin had been in captivity for two or three years, and was on his way East for a Zoological garden. His owner was allowed to ride with him in the baggagecar, and he seemed […]
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Saturday, October 1, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, March 25, 1898
    The other day a bicycle rider found a rare chance for sport. He was near the suburbs of Worcester. A farm wagon appeared, with a cow trailing behind, patiently submitting herself to be led by a rope from the front seat. The bicycle idiot rode up to the cow and began a series of […]
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Friday, September 30, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 19, 1866
    Mr. Samuel Black, living about three miles northwest of Jacksonville, is the owner of a cow about ten years old, that, in the last seven years, has had and raised fifteen calves! Morgan county against the State for stock raising.
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Friday, September 30, 2011
Published in the Dixon Telegraph and Lee County Herald, Dixon, Illinois on Wednesday, August 6, 1851
    A few weeks ago a cow belonging to one of our citizens, was purchased by a gentleman who owns saw mills at the north, for the purpose of carrying her to Pensuckie, a place some twenty-five miles north of Green Bay. The old cow with her calf, was accordingly driven down the pier, and […]
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Friday, September 30, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Monday, June 28, 1909
    ‘During the lumbering operations in the Canadian backwoods in the winter,” said a lumberman, “the French workmen-you know the French eat cocks’ combs and snails and skate-season their beans and bacon with ant sauce. Nearly every tree that falls, you know, discovers a great colony of red or brown ants. These, the French woodmen […]