Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, February 15, 1895
    The largest farm in this country and probably in the world is in the southwestern part of Louisiana. Its area is 100 miles north and south and twenty-five miles east and west. It was purchased in 1883 by a syndicate of northern capitalists by whom it is still operated. At the time of its […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 11, 1900
    Two horse thieves mounted on fleet ponies invaded the Chicago stock yards districts and escaped with fifteen or more animals.
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 12, 1867
    These immense yards, which were incorporated in 1865, and opened to the public for business January 1, 1866, are now in full operation, and is the largest livestock market in the world. We give the following summary of their size and cost of construction, which will be valuable for reference:     Amount of land owned […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, November 6, 1903
Queer Cases of Attachments Formed in Large Zoological Gardens. Â Â Â Â Among the strange features of life in a large zoo are the unexpected and at times amusing friendships that spring up between animals of altogether dissimilar habits and natures, says London Tit-Bits. Out at the National zoo two rhesus monkeys have formed a warm friendship […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, June 10, 1918
Sheep Run to the Hills, Hogs Grunt as a Signal, Dogs Fashion Their Own Bed. Â Â Â Â Sheep, when frightened, always run to an elevation, because their ancestors originally came from the mountains. They always follow a leader, because in the dangerous mountain passes their ancestors had to go in single file. Hogs grunt because their […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 21, 1903
Fire Wagon Horses Balky and it May Prove Disastrous. Refused To Leave Barn. Change had to be made-Delay of Ten Minutes Might Have Proved Serious. Â Â Â Â It is with regret that city officials, especially the fire department, admit that the team bought a little over a year ago for the fire wagon and to which […]
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Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, September 25, 1896
    William Myers, a Lima, Ohio, horseman, was attacked by a vicious stallion, when two pet bulldogs came to his rescue, attacked the stallion, and compelled it to release its hold. The dogs drove the horse into a stall. The horse killed two men at Bellefontaine, Ohio.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, November 14, 1874
    Some years since, a party of surveyors had just finished their day’s work in the north-western part of Illinois, when a violent snow storm came on. They started for their camp, which was in a forest of about eighty acres in a large prairie, nearly twenty miles from any other trees. The wind was […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 2, 1882
    There is a grey horse worked by the St. Louis Transfer Company in one of the omnibus teams which is an habitual tobacco-chewer. The animal is really passionately fond of the weed, and seems delighted when offered a piece of tobacco. The fact has become known at nearly all the hotels, and the equine […]
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Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 24, 1906
Knocks Girl From Seat and Continues Way Riding in Her Place-Accident Has Peculiar Features-All Ends Well. Â Â Â Â A fatality was narrowly averted in a runaway last Friday in Libertyville which ended in a feature which would have been ludicrous had it not bordered so closely on the tragic. The team of Henry Elfering was standing […]
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