Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, December 3, 1914
Dr. O. N. Smith of This City has Hen That Can Whip any Rooster, He Declares. Will Make Wager On It. States That He Will Bet any Amount That Hen Will Score Victory Over Rooster. Â Â Â Â Dr. O. N. Smith of Waukegan, the well known veterinarian is generally known as being level headed. His cranium […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, January 27, 1915
Lawrence Princ of the Phil Sheridan Farm Sustained Painful Injuries Today. Clothes Caught In Shaft. Horse Became Frightened and Driver of the Milk Wagon Was Thrown Under it. Â Â Â Â Lawrence Princ, who with his brother has been running the Phil Sheridan farm on Milwaukee road, west of Eighteenth street, North Chicago, but who has been […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 8, 1873
The Olympia Courier of November 25th relates this: While a party were engaged in catching salmon in North Bay, on Saturday last, an enormous panther was discovered in their vicinity, leisurely swimming across from an island to the main land. Â The party were destitute of any implement wherewith to deal summarily with him, yet the […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, July 22, 1918
Boa Gulps Down Companion as Both Are Endeavoring to Feast on the Same Live Pigeon. Â Â Â Â A snake’s method of swallowing is almost automatic; the internal mechanism begins its work as soon as the reptile takes the food into its mouth. In his book, “Of Distinguished Animals,” Mr. H. Perry Robinson relates an extraordinary incident […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 15, 1877
    By the “Senator,” which arrived on Sunday, Mr. Wolcott of this city brought two young black eagles for Woodward’s Gardens. He says that this species of eagle is rare almost to extinction. They were secured by him on a very elevated portion of the Sespe range of mountains, about 70 miles north from Santa Barbara, […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, November 18, 1909
Charles Ballard Local Barber Said to Have Had Tussie With Bird Emperor. Admits He Was Beaten. Shot American Eagle He Says, and Then Tried to Capture Wounded King of Air But Met with Such resistance that Bird Got Away and Even Ballard Cannot Tell Exactly How he Did it. Â Â Â Â Charles Ballard, while out hunting […]
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Published in the lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, May 24, 1907
    At Libertyville Monday morning, a combat to the death was witnessed between two golden shafter flickers. The birds, both males, attacked each other in mid-air and fell to the middle of the street fighting furiously.     There they continued their combat quite unmindful of teams or pedestrins until one of them received a blow […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 16, 1882
    The following story is another example of the truth that is stranger than fiction.     During a voyage made by the bark Gladstone London to Sydney, in Australia, on the 22d of October, while the vessel was in latitude forty-two degrees south, and longitude ninety degrees east, a seaman fell overboard from the starboard […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, October 3, 1922
    It is not generally realized how great an enemy the sea gull is to smaller birds. An observer ventures the opinion that the reason why small migrants invariably cross the sea by night is that otherwise they would be simply exterminated by gulls. Sometimes it happens that a change in the wind delays the […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, June 12, 1922
    The greatest bird gourmand is the vulture of southeast Europe. Seven vultures can strip the carcass of a horse in half an hour. After such a meal, they can only fly a few yards. They stand with puffed-out bodies, drooping wings, and blood-shot eyes, uttering hideous cries.
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