Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, December 21, 1917
Chas. O’Hare Sustains Bad Injuries This Morning in Local Freight Yards. Â Â Â Â This morning Charles O’Hare, a local driver for the Bairstow Coal Company, was unloading a car on the E. J. & E. tracks. In some way his team started up rather suddenly and he was thrown beneath the load of brick and as […]
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Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Saturday, August 25, 1827
From the Scoharie Republican. Â Â Â Â A few days since, a farmer in the town of Jefferson, observed his dunghill cock engaged in mortal combat with a stripped snake of about 18 or 20 inches in length, the cock to all appearance, having the decided advantage, over his more wily though less nervous adversary, dealing his […]
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Saturday, March 3, 1827
    Major Denham relates that the Tibboos, in central Africa, keep their horses entirely on milk of the camel, grain being too scarce and of too high a price to be employed for that use. The milk is given to these animals, sweet and sour, and this traveller says he never saw horses in a […]
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Sunday, September 4, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Thursday, May 18, 1826
The New York Truth Teller, on the authority of a correspondent, states that a sailor in the Greenland Fishery, after having struck a whale, fell overboard; but soon found himself mounted on the back of the whale, and had presence of mind enough to put his hand in the blower or spout hole to secure […]
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Sunday, September 4, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Thursday, February 16, 1826
    A new trick has been played, says the Saratoga Sentinel of the 13th, by “the wooden nutmeg gentry.” A considerable demand existing in the southern part of this state for merino sheep, these witty knaves prepared a large number of English sheep, by clipping the ends of the wool, applying a hot iron to […]
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Sunday, September 4, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Thursday, February 16, 1826
In one of the Balearic Islands there dwelt a retired general of France, or rather one who was induced to leave his native soil by the revolutionary proceedings in 1790. His fortune was small, his pursuits confined, and his acquaintance limited; he was remarkably fond of animals and had a great faculty in taming them: […]
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Thursday, December 15, 1825
    Two rats, upon their travels, fortunately fell in with an egg, sufficient to provide them both with dinner, which they were about to devour, when a fox made his appearance, a most unwelcome guest. The difficulty now was, to get the egg home, which they accomplished in this way. One of them lay on […]
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Thursday, September 1, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Friday, November 18, 1825
    Buffon, in his natural history, relates the following, as a mode by which the Chinese catch Ducks.     The duck catcher ascertains a place, in a small lake or still creek, where a flock is in the habit of swimming apparently for amusement, an hour or two each day. In this place he sets […]
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Thursday, September 1, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Friday, September 23, 1825
An animal, supposed to be a sea-serpent, not less than sixty feet long, is said to have exhibited himself in Halifax harbor, to the gratification of many spectators. The time given for his appearance was the 15th July. But yet the people will not believe in the existence of “his royal” lengthiness of the mighty […]
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Friday, September 23, 1825
    Horses are so plentiful in Buenos Ayres, that beggers take their rounds and ask alms on horseback, without diminishing, in any degree, their claims to sympathy. These beggers do not extend their excursions, and thus call in question the old proverb, “set a begger a horseback,” Dew. P.
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