Thursday, September 8, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Saturday, September 28, 1822
    The serpents in the possession of Mr. Neal, on Sycamore-street, Petersburg, [Va.] are objects, in our opinion, eminently deserving the attention of the curious. To see a full grown Rattlesnake, [perhaps the most deadly poisonous of the serpentine race] upwards of four feet in lenth, 5 or 6 inches in circumference, with its fangs […]
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Thursday, September 8, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Saturday, September 7, 1822
    A person in the upper wards of this city, having some money to pay to another person, called upon him, with the same, but found that he was not at home; his dog, however was present, and eyed the man, and saw the money in his hands. Calling the second time, he found his […]
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Thursday, September 8, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Tuesday, May 29, 1821
Capt. Grows, of the brig Minerva, arrived at Bath on the 2nd, states, that on the preceeding Friday, between 5 and 6 o’clock, P. M. Cape Ann was a distant 15 miles, the sea quite smooth and a very light breeze, he saw very distinctly the Sea Serpent, about 40 yards from the vessel, steering […]
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Kaskaskia, Illinois on Wednesday, November 3, 1819
    Mr. Harrison, of Canterbury, acomplished a most arduous undertaking; he laid a wager of 3000 guineas that he could ride from Canterbury to London in three hours, being a distance of 56 miles. He started at 3 o’clock and arrived at the appointed place in two hours and fifty-seven minutes, winning by three minutes. […]
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Thursday, September 8, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Friday, August 6, 1824
    Last year a rattlesnake was killed on Bullard’s plaines, in the parish of Felioiana, which had not less then one hundred and thirty seven rattles. If the generally perceived opinion, that the number of rattles denote the age of this species of the surpentine race be correct, the snake must have been as old […]
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, June 1, 1908
    A hen belonging to Mrs. Al Granger, who lives some three miles northwest of Wauconda, recently laid an egg which as a curiosity breaks all previous records by a mile. The specimen measured nine inches the long way around and seven inches in circumference the other. When broken a complete egg of normal size […]
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Saturday, November 8, 1823
    A county gentleman who is neither a friend to thieves nor poachers, has at this moment in his household a favorite cat, whose honesty, he is sorry to say, there is but too much reason the call in question. The animal, however, is far from being selfish in her principles for her acceptable gleanings […]
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, May 19, 1911
    Twenty years of hard labor in the Chester penitentiary for the theft of eighteen chickens was the unusual punishment meted out by a jury in the Mattoon circuit court to Ora Brady, alias Blondin, a former resident of Iroquois County and an all around criminal.     The sentence is unusual because of its severity […]
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, March 16, 1909
How it is used by the British Government in India. Â Â Â Â Its elephant fleet is one of the strangest and most deadly departments maintained by the British government in India. It is a large fleet of coasting steamers specially built for the transport of elephants. India’s population is one-fifth that of the entire globe. All […]
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, January 28, 1916
    That young cub bear, recently presented to Owner Weeghman of the Chicago Cubs by Senator Olson and Frank West of Waukegan, was killed yesterday. He escaped from his cage yesterday and invaded a tailoring factory and caused a panic among the 25 girl employes. The animal was captured in the woods of northern Wisconsin […]
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