Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, December 28, 1922
Cougars, when hungry, will sometimes tackle a porcupine for a meal, and always with the result of sticking the mucous membrane of the mouth full of quills, from the wounds of which death is almost sure to ensue. When I was with an expedition in the Big Horn mountains, a fine mountain lion was found […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, October 21, 1898
A Catskill Mountaineer Who Prefers Reptiles to Wife and Child. Â Â Â Â Up in the Catskills lives one of those men who have an affinity for snakes. He prefers the companionship of any kind of reptile to that of the most genial man or fascinating woman. Wherever he goes he carries with him several of these […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, September 21, 1922
South African Native Surely Exercised Some Kind of Influence Over Big Python. Â Â Â Â Many powers are said to be possessed by the African native which those of the Occident find hard to credit. Here is a story of “Muti,” or hypnosis, as performed, according to a reliable inforant, upon a hude python. The narrator says: […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 4, 1874
    Deacon Chas. W. Guilbert, furnishes the Galesburg Free Press the following cure for the bite of a rattlesnake.     About 37 years ago I arrived in Galesburg. At that time there was a great many rattlesnakes. I used to kill thirty or forty every year. A few years after my arrival two little boys […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, July 16, 1908
Terrifying Experience With a Deadly Lancehead. Â Â Â Â The Paris Eclair tells a blood curdling serpent story, the scene of which was the island of Martinque and the dramatis personne Sergent Legrand and Private Durand and the snake a deadly lancehead. Â Â Â Â The soldier had been punished with a night in the cells for some trivial […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, July 16, 1908
Instrument Proves Incubator For Rattlers-Followers of a Superstitious Theory Almost Create Panic at Church Concert. Â Â Â Â Residents of Sparrow Bush, four miles from Port Jervis, N. J., got the inside facts from Gene Tisdell why he dropped his fiddle at the church concert in Lifting Rocks just as he was about to play “Pop Goes […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 13, 1874
    An ingenious Minnesota youth is to be credited with a novelty in the way of duck hunting. He lives at a beautiful spot known as Rice lake, from the wild rice growing on its margin as thick as wheat in a field. Ducks love this rice, and when they have partaken of a sufficient […]
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Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, October 16, 1903
Son of Mrs. A. W. Schwane Kills Bird with Shotgun. Â Â Â Â After an attempt to beat off a bald eagle with an umbrella, Mrs. A. W. Schwane of 2544 Forty-first avenue, Chicago, fainted away and was rescued by her 15-year-old son, who killed the bird with a single discharge from a double-barreled shotgun. Mrs. Schwane […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 3, 1878
The many rumors of the death of this bird are contradicted this week by the Wisconsin State Journal. It says; ‘It has not surprised us, that the Democrat of this city should endeavor to create the impression that the eagle “Old Abe,” the veteran of the 8th Wisconsin Regiment, was dead! This has been a […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, May 20, 1898
The Patriotic Bird that Saw Hard Service During the Civil War. Â Â Â Â It is unlikely that there will be any mascot during the war with Spain who will gain a popularity as great as that enjoyed by “Old Abe,” the war eagle, says a Chicago paper. No more famous bird ever lived. Everybody has heard […]
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