Saturday, August 27, 2016
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Thursday, December 13, 1736
We hear from Dumfries, that a large Tortoife was taken by some fishermen upon Blackshaw Sands; at first they did not know what to make of it, but were in some fear, but after some time gaining courage, they attacked him with pitchforks, which he twisted and broke when thruft into his mouth; finding it […]
Saturday, August 27, 2016
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Thursday, June 19, 1738
They write from Lee in Kent, England that all the cattle and horses belonging to Mr. Smith of that town, has had the misfortune to be bit by a mad dog and have been drove down to the sea and into the water to prevent if possible, the ill effects of the bite.
Saturday, August 27, 2016
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Thursday, June 12, 1738
Not long since, as the King of Sweden was a Bear Hunting in the Woods near Stockholm, in company with several of the Nobility of his court, he killed a wild Bear of an enormous size, measuring six Ells long; and in all respects proportionable; the skin of it is stuffed and otherwise preserved, and […]
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Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Thursday, December 13, 1736
The Dutch have taken this year 589 Whales on the coast of Greenland and the French and Spaniards together have taken 70 Whales.
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Wednesday, August 10, 2016
Published in the Bloomington Pantagraph, Bloomington, Illinois on Tuesday, November 23, 1920
Glencoe, Wyo., Nov. 22.-It took the combined efforts of the Spaulding family today to save 3-year-old Walter Spaulding from being carried away by a giant eagle at their ranch near here. The huge bird, with a wing spread of eight feet, attacked Walter in the ranch yard. He grasped the eagle by the neck and […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, June 14, 1909
A fox on emergency will sham death to perfection. A master of hounds once noosed a fox in a whip as he bolted before a terrier. The fox appeared to be strangled. When held up by the scruff of the neck his eyes were seen to be closed, his jaws gaped, and the body hung […]
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Published in the Libertyville Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, June 12, 1908
Pushed into a sixty foot well by a frolicsome bull on the L. J. Lobdell place near Long Lake, tenanted by Robert Runyard, a colt was near rescue three times and finally was killed near the brink of the well by being choked to death by the rope about its neck. Two colts, including the […]
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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 […]
Wednesday, August 3, 2016
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, February 11, 1908
Gather in Large Numbers on South Sheridan Road. Residents in Neighborhood Threaten to Shoot Pack Unless They Depart for Other Shores. Residents of South Sheridan road witnessed this morning the fiercest dog fight Waukegan has ever had. For the past three or four days scores of dogs have been congregating about this district but no […]
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Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, February 9, 1856
The Kansas correspondent of the St. Louis Republican tells the following story; “A few days since, while riding in the rear of our town, in a small ravine, through which a streamlet takes a quiet way beneath its crystal covering, and whose irrigation has produced tall grasses and shrubs that make a hiding place for […]
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