Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Tuesday, March 19, 1912
    “I notice in the Daily News [Chicago] of April 2 an Associated Press report from Salt Lake City, saying that Elmar Apeigren of that place has a hen that laid an egg 8 1-16 inches in circumfernce, the egg being on exhibition there. I have a hen, a rose comb Plymouth Rock, that lays […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 4, 1911
Clifton, Pa., Man Denies That He is “An Old Hen” But Admits That an Egg Placed in His Bed Became a Chick. Â Â Â Â Pittsburg, Pa.-Oscar Heinze, a farmer of Clifton, holds the human incubator record. Â Â Â Â Little did he expect when he took his bedtick to the barn recently and filled it with straw that […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, June 2, 1911
    Cincinnati, May 26.-Lockland has a human incubator in Jacob Zeitz, who after three days at the task, has added forty-two Plymouth Rock chichens to his possessions. For three days he lay in bed with sixty eggs grouped around him with a heavy blanket as covering.     Mr. Zeitz had four Plymouth Rock hens which […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 19, 1910
Spherically Shaped Egg Laid This Morning in Shape and Weight of the Regulation Tennis Ball. Â Â Â Â Fred Wilson, the 5 cent theater man on south Genesee street, and a mighty popular one at that; has a hen that is laying tennis balls and he is willing to close a contact with some big sporting goods […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, November 29, 1907
    To walk right up to a monster bear and try to shove it out of the way and then escape without so mush as a scratch is an experience of a lifetime. Harry I. Engelbright found it so a few days ago in Diamond canyon, above Washington, Nev. The young man, son of Congressman […]
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Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, January 24, 1913
    Decatur, Ill., Jan.-Someone today threw a brick into the smoothly running parcel post machinery in the Decatur postoffice. It was a package of fresh skunk hides, mailed by a trapper on a rural route. Because fresh breezes were blowing in the country the rural route carrier was able to bring the parcel post to […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 2, 1878
    A man in Rockland, Me., lately dug out of one hole fifty-five snakes and six full-grown skunks-Boston Post.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, October 2, 1875
    Miss Molly Allen, of Napa, Cal., a maiden of twelve or thirteen, has killed more game with her small telescope rifle than any two hunters in that region this winter. She made thirty dollars on squirrels tails last summer, getting only five cents apiece. At a shooting match last year she took so many […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, September 19, 1913
Petted in Evanston, They Bit the Hands That Fed Them, and They Are “In Bad.” Â Â Â Â Squirrels in Evanston-pampered, nut-fattened pets of the residents for many years-have become a nuisance and the protection which has been afforded them by city ordinances is to be withdrawn. Â Â Â Â Figuratively speaking, the bushytailed rodents have “bitten the hands […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, November 22, 1901
    Statistics from official sources show that prairie dogs occupy and render worthless, or nearly so, for agricultural purposes 1,224,854 acres of land in Kansas. All efforts to exterminate the dogs have failed, even with the co-operation of the Department of Agriculture.