Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, June 10, 1912
    The geese which play an important role in a certain opera recently presented in Milan, Italy, have been so noisy of late during rehearsals, drowning the voices of the singers, that a veterinary surgeon was consulted the other day, and he overcame the difficulty by inserting in the bill of each goose a chloroformed […]
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, June 10, 1912
Lives Under Ruins of Alabama Church for More Than 100 Days. Â Â Â Â Mobile, Ala., June 10.-Pinned under the ruins of a church near Evergreen, Ala., which had blown down on Feb. 21, a hog was found alive and, while weakened from the long imprisonment, was able to eat and drink. Â Â Â Â The animal was over […]
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, June 6, 1912
    Planfield, Ill., June 6.-A batted ball that gave the batter a home run was found to have killed a rabbit during a game at Plainfield. An outfielder found the dead rabbit lying beside the ball.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, April 22, 1912
    A man down in Massachusetts found a blacksnake frozen in the snow. He took the snake up carefully so that it would not break-it was stiff as the rod of Moses in the original form-and took it home and put it by the fire. And it thawed out. It wriggled around in the heat […]
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, April 22, 1912
Frightened Animals Push Rear Seat on Driver’s Head, Injuring Him. Â Â Â Â Upper Sandusky, O., April 22.-A singular accident happened here. William Leverich was about to hitch a team on Main street when an automobile driven by David Rall grazed the animals flank. Rall slowed down to see if the horses had been injured and the […]
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Sunday, September 18, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, March 4, 1912
Thirty Fall Twenty-five feet from Wrecked Cars. Four are killed and the Rest Run Through Chicago Streets, Creating a Wild Panic. Â Â Â Â Chicago, March 4-Thirty head of maddened cattle, freed from cars in a train wreck, stampeded at East Forty-first street and Cottage Grove avenue and terrorized the neighborhood for blocks in every direction. Â Â Â Â […]
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Sunday, September 18, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Kaskaskia, Illinois on Thursday, October 23, 1817
    In page 204 vol. 111. [Memoirs of doctor Lettsom] the following curious relation is given by Bishop Madison.     In a town, this fall, among the mountains of our country, near to the place where I happened to be, a boy of 12 or 13 years of age, was bit on the side of […]
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 28, 1901
Rat Catchers That Are Paid by the Government.     Several years ago a letter containing a large sum of money disappeared, from the New York post office, writes Hugh Netherton, in Ladies Home Journal, in telling of “Cats That Draw Salaries.” A month after the disappearance a desk in one of the rooms was moved, […]
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 22, 1862
    We learn that a number of gentlemen are about purchasing Ball Mountain, Vermont, with a view of trying the experiment in domesticating the moose. The entire base of the mountain is to be enclosed by a high fence. The object is to make the moose serviceable in driving singly or by pairs.
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Sunday, September 18, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, September 29, 1899
    Locked in an iron cage, Mille Morrelli fought with an enraged leopard at the Philadelphia exposition grounds. The little French women conquered, but now lies in the University hospital with severe wounds in her left arm and breast.