Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 27, 1882
    In a recent trip to Sparta, Wis., Messrs. R. O. Earl and C. H. Rice, of this city, indulged in pigeon hunting on a grand scale. They visited a pigeon roost and captured between 800 and 900 pigeons, nearly all young ones. They were taken with nets and are now being fattened in Waukegan. […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, September 26, 1912
Sight of Stuffed Pigeon Refreshes Memories of Old Residents Here. Tell Of The Slaughter. Millions of the Birds Were Killed a Few Years Ago. None Found Now. Â Â Â Â The appearance in the window of the Ingalls jewelry store of a stuffed passenger pigeon that was killed fifty-one years ago has caused considerable retrospection on the […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, April 6, 1910
Largest Live Stock Theft in Texas in Years.-Worth $15,000. Â Â Â Â Sanderson, Texas, April 6.-A. G. Anderson, has discovered that a flock of sheep numbering 2,800 head and valued at about $15,000 was stolen from his ranch in the upper end of this country a few nights ago. It is the biggest live stock theft that […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, August 23, 1912
Local Butchers Predict a 40 cent Quotation by Next Thanksgiving Day. 325 Birds Out of 400 Die in One Flock on One Farm Alone in Lake County. Â Â Â Â Thousands of young turkeys, nearly the entire supply for Thanksgiving and Christmas have perished in recent rainy, cold and inclement weather in the vicinity of Waukegan. Predict […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, October 7, 1922
By International News Service. Â Â Â Â Nashua, N. H., Oct. 7.-Shortly after federal inspectors dumped ten gallons of mash into the yard of JosephVegas, of this city, a flock of chickens, geese and ducks fell upon it. Â Â Â Â Soon they had been provided with enough “kick” to send them staggering about the yard. Ganders made eye […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, December 1, 1921
    For many years a pair of swans lived on the lakes in the grounds of Meldrum house, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. One day the male swan, who was getting lame and evidently feeling his age, while sailing along with his mate, seized hold of her head and held her under the water until she died. Shortly […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, March 18, 1914
Child Dies After Being attacked by Angry Flock. Â Â Â Â Racine,Wis., March 18.-Frank Chumieck, ten years old, of Wind Point, was attacked by a flock of geese and knocked to the ground. Â Â Â Â His father, who heard his frantic screams, drove the geese off and carried the boy into the house, where he died five minutes […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, April 6, 1922
    Roosters have different tactics when fighting and often display considerable brainwork. Recently, in a Cuban rooster fight, where a little rooster was pitted against a big fellow, the little bird looked at his antagonist and started to run around and around, with the big rooster after him. Then, when the big bird was out […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 15, 1871
    Two women in Staunton, Ind., got into a fight about an egg that a hen of one of the women laid in the barn of the other. Then their sons engaged in the melee, and before it ended one of the women had her back broken by a stroke from a club, and will […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, September 9, 1898
Peculiar American Fighting Cock Mystifies the Spaniards. Â Â Â Â Back in the ’40s a little story went the rounds of the newspapers. It was the story of the American eagle and the Spanish cock. An American ship visited one of the ports of Spain, and while lying at anchor in the harbor the officers went ashore […]