Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 19, 1856
    A dead horse is worth $17.50 in New York. His hide is sold to the tanners, his bones are burned and sold to the sugar refiners for refining purposes, and to the farmers for manure; his meat is pressed and the grease is used by the soap and candle makers; while the remnants and […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 21, 1855
    A correspondent of the Prairie Farmer who was very much annoyed by rats, tried shooting, poisoning, and everything he could think of; but they defied the whole category. He then heard that they would not remain where guinea fowls were kept, and procured several, and now says that for over two years he has […]
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Thursday, October 20, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, October 21, 1898
Woman Borgia Emulates the Fate of Egypt’s Queen. Â Â Â Â Cora Smith, whose death took place at Anamosa, Iowa, penitentiary Monday killed herself by eating spiders. A paper bag partially full of the insects was found in her cell and an examination of her stomach showed that the poison from the insects caused her death. She […]
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, November 1, 1901
    Richard Croak, of Hartland, was in Harvard yesterday and to friends he told of his experience in having four lizards taken from his stomach by Dr. Sarah DeLoss, of Chicago. For nine years he has suffered from his stomach, at times enduring severe pain that baffled the skill of physicians. He finally went to […]
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 20, 1882
    Heading across the bay to St. Simon’s light, the man in charge of the wheel hailed Mr. Tift and directed his attention to something ahead of us. The object turned out to be a shark’s fin, so large as to be a matter of wonder to the sailors aboard. The boat happened to be […]
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Thursday, October 13, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, July 8, 1878
    Rabbit hunting and fishing constitute the business of life now to the Piute warriors in Nevada, since the buffalo have traveled north, and the antelope is fast following them; and in the capture and killing of such deer he is exceedingly expert. His fishing tackle consists of a bit of light rope, weighted with […]
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Saturday, October 8, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, December 29, 1905
Whale Fights Several Swordfish and a Huge Shark-Conflick Witnessed by Many People. New York.-An exciting battle royal between a whale, several swordfish and a thrasher shark was witnessed by many passengers of an ocean liner which arrived in this port the other day from Liverpool. The fight lasted nearly an hour. The combatants were first […]
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Sunday, April 30, 1967
School of Whales Runs a Race in the Ocean with the Liner St. Louis. New York, July 13.-The story of a midocean race between a school of whales and the steamship St. Louis, of the American line, which lasted for miles and was only ended when a sixty-foot leviathan, the leader of the school, was […]
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Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, March 9, 1894
The stomach of a dead ostrich at the zoo of Clifton, England, contained a prayer book, a pencil case and two handkerchiefs. A Georgia man killed a snapping turtle and ate it after throwing the head over into the back yard. A few days after the turtle’s head caught a chicken and held it until […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, October 22, 1897
    Several fishermen at Highland Lake, near Middletown, N. Y., had an exciting experience with two immense snapping turtles recently. The turtles were engaged in a deadly combat fifty feet from shore and the men attempted to take them with hook and line. The fishermen summoned two companions to aid them, but the turtles fought […]