Friday, September 16, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, April 19, 1915
In India Those Birds Have Been Labeled “Shreds of Satan.” Â Â Â Â Travelers in the orient have much to say about the Indian crow, a bird that for uncanny knowingness and prankish audacity has perhaps no equal. Corvus splendens-thus have ornithologists flatteringly labeled him. But a naturalist who knows the Indian crows at first hand has […]
Friday, September 16, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 13, 1915
Wealthy Farmer Near Beecher Victim of Maddened Bull. Â Â Â Â A wealthy farmer residing south of beecher, near Joliet, is dying at his home as a result of injuries received when he was gored by a mad bull. Â Â Â Â He was chased for twenty minutes about a field and finally caught in a corner. Five ribs […]
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Friday, September 16, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, May 4, 1914
Doctor Essaying Part of Rescuer is also attacked. Â Â Â Â Wabash, Ind., May 4.-Mrs. Philip Lemberger, wife of a prominent farmer, was gored to death by a bull at her home. Mrs. Lemberger was crossing a forty-acre field when she was attacked. Â Â Â Â Dr. E. A. Rogers armed himself with a pitchfork and rushed to the […]
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Friday, September 16, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, October 15, 1915
    Last Sunday towards evening Mrs. William Johnson of Barrington and her two little daughters, aged three and five years, went to get a pail of water from the barn yard and were attacked by a Jersey cow. Mrs. Johnson was near and tried to protect them as much as possible, but the cow was […]
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Friday, September 16, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, September 3, 1919
Costs $180,000,000 to Support Rats in Country Each Year, Statistics Show. Start National Campaign. Â Â Â Â There is a rat for every person in the United States. Â Â Â Â If every man, women and child was to make his and her financial prorata contribution to what these hundred million or more rats exceed for upkeep annually. On […]
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Thursday, September 15, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, July 19, 1916
    Joliet, Ill., July 18.- Mrs. Mary Palace today asked the police to “arrest” a large rooster belonging to John Francis, a neighbor, after it had attacked her 2-year-old son, Leo, and beaten him into unconsciousness.     The boy was chasing the fowl when it suddenly turned on him with spur and beak. Leo attempted […]
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, September 25, 1916
Fear an Invasion by Rats When Mammoth Pile of Junk is Moved From Street. Thousands Of Rats There. Have Taken Refuge in Enormous Pile of Junk That is Stored by Janowitz. Â Â Â Â Residents of Ash street are thinking seriously of inserting an advertisement reading somewhat as follows: Â Â Â Â Wanted-A Pied Piper who will guarantee to […]
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Sunday, September 11, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 6, 1916
Fourteen Year Old Lad Shows Presence of Mind Which Results in His Escape. Â Â Â Â A miraculous escape from serious injury or death happened in Zion City Friday afternoon. About 2 o’clock a horse and rig belonging to the American Express Company suddenly went bounding along Elijah avenue at full speed. A boy about 14 years […]
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Thursday, September 8, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Kaskaskia, Illinois on Wednesday, November 10, 1819
    A rattlesnake was lately killed at Wilton, [R. I.] in which were found eighty-two living young ones, from 8 inches to a foot in length.
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Monday, December 7, 1891
Harding, a Cattleman, Insane from the Horrors of a Terrible Experience. Â Â Â Â Englewood, Kas., Dec. 6.- [Special.]-News comes of the rescue from an old disused well in No man’s Land of a cattleman named Harding by the driver of the stagecoach which every ten days runs from Englewood to Beaver City, No Man’s Land, and […]