Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, November 22, 1898
President to be Petitioned to Permit the Shows to Continue After American Occupation. Â Â Â Â At a recent meeting of the professional bullfighters in Havana it was determined to forward to President McKinley a petition that, after the beginning of American control, there be no legal steps taken to prevent them from carrying on their amusement. […]
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Sunday, February 13, 2011
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Monday, April 6, 1874
    From the Covington Advertiser.     On Saturday about 150 persons, with dogs, guns, etc. met in the public square of Union, organized under the leadership of Mr. Clarkson, and proceeded to the farm of J. D. Smith, on Gunpowder, which a vicious wild boar had visited the night previous. Here Medoc, a noted dog […]
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, January 16, 1918
Suggestion They Would Be Mistaken for Chinese Heads in Water Won Prize as Best Idea. Â Â Â Â During the war between China and Japan in 1894 Viceroy Liu kun-yi issued a proclamation offering a reward to any one who could suggest a plan for destroying the enemy fleet. The prize was won by an old literary […]
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Sunday, February 13, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, July 18, 1922
Pig-sticking Not the Form of Amusement That Would Appeal to the Mollycoddle. Â Â Â Â One of the most thrilling of all sports is pig-sticking. Armed with a steel-pointed bamboo spear some seven or eight feet long, and mounted on a fast, well-trained horse, the pig-sticker waits outside a patch of covert until the beaters’ cries announce […]
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Friday, February 11, 2011
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Wednesday, March 12, 1856
    The following extract from the Hunter’s Feast forms the conclusion by the “hunter naturalist” about a “Deer hunt in a Dug Out.” He and Dick were after venision in their canoe by torch light:     “We had scarcely passed this point, when my attention was attracted by a pair of fiery eyes that glistened […]
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Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Monday, December 8, 1873
A Tough Old Hunter. The Exploits of Phin Teeple-Slaying Thousands of Deer and Hundreds of Bears-How His Boys Killed a Bear. Susquehanna Depot, Pa. [Dec,2], Correspondence of the New York San. Old Phin Teeple, of Preston, Wayne County, has been absent some weeks in the forests of Potter County hunting. Phin is 70 years old, […]
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Sunday, July 13, 1873
Why Venomous Reptiles Do Not Flourish Here.-The Reason India is Infested With Snakes-Reptiles Driving an Army Back-The American Pioneers Best Friend-A Fight Between a Sow and Rattlesnake. The Editor of the New York Sun: Â Â Â Â Sir: An editorial published in the Sun on the subject of the terrible mortality from snake bites in India, disclosed […]
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Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Monday, July 28, 1879
North Branch Street And Vicinity Given Over To Them. Â Â Â Â “If you want to see the dirtest spot in Chicago,” said Mr. William Coakley, of No. 306 North Branch street, to a reporter of the Tribune yesterday, “you ought to go over to Goose Island. It is -that is, about where I live-the filthiest hole […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, November 30, 1906
 Several Already Slain In Duluth, Minn. One Routed By A Woman. Uses dipper of hot water on him-Didn’t want him in kitchen while she was busy making preserves.     Duluth, Minn.-The annual invasion of Duluth by members of the bear tribe began the other day, and has been continuous ever since. Ten bears have […]
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Thursday, February 3, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 5, 1881
    A fearful tale is told, in the Port Jervis [N. Y.] Union of a recent date of the fate of Lottie Merrill, the young huntress of Wayne County, Pa. According to this account she had met a most tragic death, having been attacked in her hut by six bears, killed and eaten by them, […]
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