Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Published in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Friday, July 15, 1870
An infant was recently found in the stomach of a huge catfish caught in the Tennessee River, near Chattanooga.
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, November 16, 1872
Another and terrible warning to the truant comes from Georgetown, Kentucky. A little boy, in returning from school, stopped to play with the little pigs in a pasture through which he passed, and as the old hogs did not allow her offspring to play with truant boys, they set upon him and ate him up, […]
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, April 25, 1874
The death of a little colored girl in Alabama is recorded in a local paper which gives as a cause the following: While asleep the ants by the hundreds made an attack on the child, and when she awoke she was literally covered with them, and all busy biting and stinging. They were so ferocious […]
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 6, 1857
    This is a very dirty world in spots. Some of the hogs dead of cholera at the West have been sent as pork to the East, and dead horses in Philadelphia are used to fatten hogs for market. Pah! feed a man this pork, washed down with strichnined whisky, and he must soon become […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 19, 1856
    Four men caught in a net on the 7th inst in Tamarah Swamp, Bloomfield township, Ohio, eighteen hundred pigeons at one haul. Besides this, they shot during the same night, 816 more, making a total of 2,616.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, November 14, 1885
    [Wong Chin Foo in Chicago News.]     Turtle fighting is very common in the east, and I am surprised the sport has not been introduced into this country. It’s quiet, nice, and very satisfactory. Two kinds of the reptiles are good for fighting-the mud turtle and the snapper. The latter is quicker and more […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, May 31, 1901
Left their home near Job, W. Va., to Gather Wild Flowers. Â Â Â Â A Job, W. Va., special says: ‘To be crused to death in the embrace of a monstrous black bear and their little bodies afterward mangled and partly devoured was the frightful fate that befell the three young children of E. P. Porterfield, a […]
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Thursday, September 22, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville. Illinois on Friday, May 6, 1904
Gasoline Torch Explodes and Destroys Camels, Elephants and Bears. Â Â Â Â A circus train arrived in Pawnee City, Neb., late the other night. Early the next morning one of the animal-keepers went through the elephant cars to see that all was right, when the gasoline torch which he carried exploded and the entire car was immediately […]
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, April 12, 1915
Fourteen Dead Horses Lie on the Ground near Railroad Tracks at Beach. Investigation Demanded. Man Said to Buy Horses for Their Hides and Leaves the Carcasses on Ground. Â Â Â Â The presence of the carcasses of fourteen dead horses on a knoll beside the Chicago and Northwestern railroad tracks just north of the Beach station and […]
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 31, 1880
    One of the most sickening affairs, if, indeed, it is not the most horrible, which it has ever been our duty to chronicle, happened last Saturday on the premises of Mr. Solon Kelly, about eight miles from Huntsville. There was a hog-killing in progress, and two colored men, Robert and Dennis Patrick, got into […]
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