Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, November 3, 1922
By International News Service     Birmingham, Ala., Nov. 3-The increasing popularity of the mountain variety of Alabama “moonshine” was effectively demonstrated during the hearing of a case in J. Q. Smith’s division of the Circuit Court here. Evidence adduced also brought out the fact that a new field has opened up for the activities of […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, September 2, 1898
    Rufus D. Shupstring, a farmer, of Safford, Ala., noticed some time ago that one of his cows was not giving her usual quantity of milk, and, thinking that some of the negroes were milking the cow at night, set out to watch her when, to his surprise, he saw four pigs out of a […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, August 13, 1897
    A striking example of the intelligence of elephants was seen in Middletown, Conn., the other day during a circus parade. A small child on Broad street got away from its mother and toddled out into the street. Before anyone could realize what the child was up to it was directly in front of the […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, September 23, 1910
Escapes From Butcher Shop and Flies in Horses Face to Avoid Capture. Â Â Â Â A game rooster of the Philipino breed ran amuck from a local butcher shop, this morning and the fact that there are no fatalities is deemed a miracle. This game rooster was to be placed on the guillotine today and not being […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 20, 1872
    On Tuesday Last, Isaac James Esq., of Fremont, in this county came very near losing his life in a contest with a beligerent bull that he was attempting to drive out of a grain field into which the animal had jumped. Although armed with a pitch-fork, that he used freely after the unruly bovine […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, February 24, 1922
    Mention of a bull in a china shop suggests destruction swift and complete, but a cow spent a quarter of an hour in a china shop in the main street of Tipperary without breaking or upsetting a single article. Entering the shop while the owner was absent, it went behind the counter and then […]
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Saturday, January 29, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 31, 1900
    At Wahoo, Neb., a shepherd dog guarded and protected the baby of Fred Baltz Jr., nineteen hours during a violent storm. The child, three years old, wandered away and after the storm was found sitting under the shelter of a creek bank, wet and muddy, but uninjured.
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Saturday, January 29, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 10, 1900
     A bad accident is reported from Leipzig, which is entirely attributed to the speaking and imitative powers of a parrot.     A very fine parrot inhabits a cage situated near the starting place of an electric car. From being constantly near the conductor it has learned to imitate them so well that the other […]
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, July 26, 1901
    Monkeys big and little in an indiscriminate fight demanded the attention of the keepers of the zoo the other afternoon, and it required half an hour before the combatants could be seperated. A piece of a juicy apple was responsible for the trouble, and while the fight went on a sly ape sat in […]
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, January 10, 1922
    A monkey was used by a clever woman thief to commit a series of thefts from jewelers’ shops in Paris. The creature was so tiny that she carried it in a big muff. Then while its mistress was standing at such distance from the counter as disarmed suspicion, the monkey would thrust out a […]