Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, January 14, 1910
At the conclusion of a children’s performance at Old Meldrum an elephant proceeded along a narrow road with a pail in its trunk for the purpose of procuring water from a pump. A little girl chanced to get in the animal’s way, and the road being only wide enough to accommodate his substantial body, the […]
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, February 27, 1908
Bloomington, Illinois, Feb. 27-After stumbling in the snowdrifts and throwing his fair rider and fracturing two ribs, the faithful horse, which had been ridden by Miss Eleanor England, daughter of John C. England, of Logan county, stood guard over the unconscious girl for two hours until she later revived, climbed into the saddle and started […]
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Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, January 20, 1909
Their Mission is to Fight Rats Which Spread the Plague. Washington, Jan. 30-Five thousand cats whose mission is to serve as rat destroyers in fair Japan, have been shipped from Chicago. The purpose of this curious feline invasion is to aid in fighting the plague which is spread by rodents.
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Wednesday, November 8, 2017
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, August 12, 1907
Fair Foreigner Carries Rattler and Blueberries Together. “Nice Blueberries, very cheap, only 10 cents a quart,” was the solicitation of Anna Riscavage, a buxom young foreigner, in front of a prominent residence in Centralin, Pa. The mistress of the house noticed that the berries were luscious and that only a few quarts remained in the […]
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Wednesday, November 8, 2017
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, October 11, 1909
Animals Watch the Body of Recluse Thought Murdered by Robbers. Wallingford, Vt., Oct. 11.- Watched over by fourteen cats, which were her only companions in life, the body of Mary J. Johnson, sixty-seven years old, was found in her home under circumstances indicating murder. Robbery, it is thought. was the motive. Miss Johnson had lived […]
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Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, May 6, 1853
Some months ago the City Council very properly, and in accordance with the wishes of three-fourths of the people of the city, passed an ordinance prohibiting the running at large of hogs on our streets. This has been an evil which our citizens for years have endeavored to eradicate, but were overborne by the influence […]
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Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, May 11, 1853
Eleven fine fat seals and an ice monkey from the arctic regions, have recently arrived at Boston, on their way to the world’s fair. The monkey is one of those rare species which live on the ice, sport with walruses and seals, and live on fish.
Thursday, November 24, 2016
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Wednesday, March 10, 1728
Several Gentlemen lately arrived from Holland report, that the inhabitants of that country are very much afraid of a hard winter, by reason of the extraordinary flocking together of Ravenous Land-Fowls towards the sea-coast, an infallible sign, which has very much raised the price of all sorts of provisions there, especially Tobacco, Brandy and Coal.
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Thursday, November 24, 2016
Published in the New York Gazette, New York, New York on Thursday, February 24, 1735
On Monday last a woman in Dedman’s Place, Southwark London, England leaving a nurse child (a boy about two years old) in a cradle with a puppy to play with it, upon her return found the dog had gnaw’d off the private parts in such a manner, that its life is dispaired of.
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Wednesday, March 4, 1733
London, England October 16, 1733. On Monday last as two young lads were fighting at Clerkenwell-Green, a large dog, belonging to a Brewer’s Dray, passing by, seized one of the boys by the hand, and not only bit him in a cruel manner, but held so fast that it was with difficullty the boys hand […]