Published in the lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, December 25, 1908
Washington Man Wins Desperate Encounter With Big Bird of Ill Omen in a Chicken Coop. Â Â Â Â Numerous raids have been made recently on people’s chicken houses in the vicinity of Mayers Falls, Wash., by hoboes, who have always succeeded in escaping unpunished with their booty. H. C. Buchanan, an old gentleman sixty-five years old, who […]
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Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, February 8, 1895
“I saw an eagle killed last summer in rather a strange way,” said Fred J. Hancock, of Harrisburg. One afternoon while out hunting, I noticed an immense eagle flying directly overhead bearing in its talons a burden that apparently worried it. I noticed that the bird began to show signs of weakness, but was somewhat […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, August 13, 1897
    A woman in Minneapolis tells a curious story of bird life which shows a phase of sociability in a wild bird’s make-up. She has always fed the birds in winter weather, and never allowed them disturbed on her premises. She had a fine canary, which, in pleasant weather, always had a window from which […]
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Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, October 18, 1912
    Red Oak, Ill., Oct.-More than fifty blackbirds that had taken refuge in a poplar tree were killed when a bolt of lightning struck the tree.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, July 21, 1922
Washington Specimen Uses the Street Car as His Particular Means of Transportation. Â Â Â Â Now that spring is here, it may interest bird lovers to know that at least one bird has solved the problem of transportation without the use of wings. Â Â Â Â Birds are famous for their migrations, but hitherto they always have used wings. […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, June 16, 1922
    At the extreme northerly point of the Shetlands- a place nearer the pole than Petrograd-is a small, lonely hut, where H. Edwardson of London lives every spring with the sea birds as almost sole companions. For 33 years he has occupied this hut from spring to autumn. For many years he has been the […]
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Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, May 12, 1905
    People living near Fox Lake have several times this spring noticed a white blackbird among others of its species flying about the marshy places which abound in that region. The bird is reported to be absolutely white with the exception of the regular red spot which is on the wings of all males. Last […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, January 12, 1914
 Crow Which Never Missed a Religious Meeting Held in Zion City is Missing. Shame Cry Crusaders. Hundreds of Zionites Mourn Bird Whose Attendance at Services Was Marked.     Zion City, Dec. 12,-“Jack,” the pet crow, which has attended the crusade meetings held twice daily in front of the F. B. Cook factory, has been assassinated. […]
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Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, June 7, 1907
    The crow bounty law, which goes into effect July 1, will probably create a new industry in Illinois. By the terms of this law every crow’s egg will be worth five cents at the county treasurer’s office. What is to hinder a man from securing several pairs of crows and going into the crow […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 11, 1885
[Exchange] Â Â Â Â Miss Sartorius, in her book on the Soudan and Egypt, says: “Every village has its pigeon houses, looking like great mud cones, and in the evening the owners go out and call them in. But when a man wants to get hold of extra pigeons, instead of calling them he frightens pigeons away. […]