Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Friday, August 12, 1825
    A panther lately attacked a little girl, 12 or 13 years old, in Jackson city, Tennessee. The furious animal was first assailed by a small dog, which only diverted his attantion from the girl for a few moments, when another larger dog came up and made battle with him, during which two men arrived […]
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Saturday, March 8, 1823
    A Monster!-A Hog has arrived at New York from the interior, weighing 1465 pounds!
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Tuesday, January 16, 1821
    In the history of Russia mention is made of a peasant who in quest of honey leaped into a hollow tree, where he found such a great stock that he sunk up to the breast in it; He stuck fast, and his remedy appeared but to eat himself into liberty by devouring all the […]
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Published in the Belvidere Standard, Belvidere, Illinois on Tuesday, July 16, 1861
A pretty little bantam was recently thrown into the cage of one of the tigers domiciled in the managerie of the Jardin des Plantes. Â It was designed to sharpen his appetite for some blocks of meat which he had declined to eat. Â Not in the least alarmed by his terrible roars, bantam advanced with the […]
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, November 9, 1923
If a giraffe sees a lion first he can outdistance him and if driven to bay matches his hoofs against the teeth and claws of his enemy.
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, October 30, 1922
Lion flesh is said to be very good eating, but tiger is tough and sinewy. Â Nevertheless, the latter is eaten in India as there is a superstition that it imparts strength and cunning to the eater.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, January 27, 1915
Arouses Proprietor of Hotel When Flames Attack Building. Â Â Â Â Marinette, Wic., Jan. 27.-A dog in the household of Hugh Bahlert, hotel mar at Pound, this county, saved the place from destruction by fire and undoubtedly saved the lives of guests who were sleeping. The dog came to his master’s door and barked until Bahlert arose […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 28, 1881
    Our Naples correspondent writes: “The other day, at the village of Piscinnola, a singular race took place, customary on the occasion of the annual feast of the patron saint-St. Antonio. At two p. m. the picture of the saint, with his inseparable pig, was affixed to the door of the parish church, and all […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, August 5, 1910
Albany, NY., Aug 5. — A single bolt of lightning at Grooms Corners killed instantly three men who were hurrying to the barn with a load of hay from a field on the Lockrow farm. Â The men were Spencer Lockrow, 30, son of the owner of the farm, and two laborers, Simon Watson and Andrew […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, July 13, 1922
International News Service. Â Paris, July 13. — Louis Juge made each night “the Circuit of Death.” Â Which is to say he rode a bicycle around the edge of a cage in which were pacing several mature and ferocious looking lions. Â Small boys voted it the best stunt in the circus. Opening night of the Paris […]