Saturday, October 8, 2016
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Thursday, July 28, 1729
Petersburg, Russia April 14, 1729. The fleet which is leaving, will consist of 47 Man of War of the line, of 24 Frigates, and a large number of Gallies on board of which Vessels 14,000 Seamen, are to embark. This formidable Fleet is to be victualled with 3500 Oxen and 600 Hogs.
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Thursday, March 27, 1732
By a letter from Martha’s Vinyard of the 23rd of December, 1731, we have an Account, that a ship is arrived there, in 14 Weeks from Rotterdam where they took on board 150 People for Pennsylvania, and that above One Hundred of them died at sea through Hunger and Cold. That a Rat was sold […]
Thursday, September 1, 2016
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, July 30, 1901
She is Very Fond of Her Keeper and Knows Him From All Others. The Central park menagerie at New York has a great African lioness that is totally blind. One would scarcely guess it from her appearance, however. She walks up and down her cage just the same as the other members of the cat […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 19, 1877
Aurora, Illinois.-Up to last year some 700 cows had run in the streets of this city to the great disgust and annoyance of the people generally. This was convenient to the cow owners, but our citizens, by a vote of two to one on the subject, decided that the city should no longer be used […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, March 28, 1898
Kansas City, Mo., March 28.-Senor Julian Azcue, an agent of the Spanish government from Havana, and Antonio Maestre, of St. Louis, are in the Kansas City market purchasing mules for the Spanish army. They have practically cleaned the market of medium-sized mules, having purchased 600 to be delivered on the wharf at New Orleans by […]
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Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois
Mr. O. M. Hopkins, late of Scottsburg, who died in January last, had a small and sprightly terrier, named “Nig,” of which he was very fond. After the death of his master, Nig grew melancholy. Nothing the family could do seemed to amuse him. He could not be enticed from the side of his mistress, […]
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Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Tuesday, April 30, 1850
The New York Courier extracts from the Republique, published at Tarbes, (High Pyramid) France, the following horrible account of a man being destroyed by wolves near that place: “On the night of the 4th inst., in the annals of our country, occured in the valley of Aure. A pedler was returning from the village of […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, July 8, 1901
While men ran away a woman threw a supposedly mad dog over the Randolph street viaduct at Chicago.
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, June 3, 1913
Evansville, Indiana. June 8,-C. P. Carlisle, a local undertaker, was bitten in the side by a vicious horse, and his condition is regarded as serious.
Thursday, January 29, 2015
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 3, 1912
Mr. and Mrs. Damerel of Ashland Travel in Unique Fashion. Driving from coast to coast, with four timber wolves hitched to a spring wagon pulling them, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Damerel of Ashland, Wis., arrived in Waukegan today. The queer equipage is now bound for New York, from which place it will double on […]
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