Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, October 22, 1897
Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun on 10/22/1897. An Elephant that would not neglect a baby it was caring for. Â Â Â Â Marie A. Millie, in St. Nicholas, tells a number of “Stories of Elephants.” Mrs Millie says: Some time before the elephant hunt I have described my husband was at a station in Bengal. His […]
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Sunday, December 12, 1875
 A Child Eighteen Hours Among Snapping And Growling Wolves.     On Saturday evening last. Platteville, Col., was startled by the report that a little girl aged about 9 years, a twin-daughter of a Mr. Suthorland, who recently moved into the neighborhood, was lost on the plains. It appears that the child accompanied her father […]
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, February 11, 1898
Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun on 02/11/1898. Â Â Â Â Flagman A. J. Woods, stationed at Forsythe Junction, had a desperate encounter with a huge rattlesnake one night recently. Attracted by the flare of the watchman’s lantern, which was stationed upon the platform, the snake had crawled up and wound its large body around it. The […]
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Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Wednesday, March 27, 1872
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune on 03/27/1872. Â Â Â Â An Arkansas paper says that in Lawrence County, as some persons were clearing some land, they set fire to a large oak log lying on the ground, when they noticed a rattlesnake crawling out from the log. They turned it over, when they discovered a den […]
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Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, October 9, 1903
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 10/09/1903. Â Â Â Â Henri Choupin, a French naturalist, draws attention to the fact that animals as a rule are wonderfully neat and far excel human beings in this respect. It has taken men, he says, several centuries to learn the virtues of neatness and cleanliness, whereas animals […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, September 18, 1903
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 09/18/1903. Â Â Â Â A Dutch traveler, Kurt Dinter, who has just returned from southern Africa, says that one day, while in camp in Hottentot land, he heard a rushing sound as if rain were falling in torrents. Not far away it seemed to him as if a […]
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, May 15, 1903
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 05/15/1903. Accident to New Jersey man causes bird to cry for help. Â Â Â Â Attracted by cries of “Murder,” “Help!” “Come quick!” neighbors of George H. Andrews of Washington, N. J. ran to his house to find out the cause. They knew the cries were made by […]
Published in the The Libertyville Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, March 6, 1903
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 03/06/1903.     Chicago’s consumption of livestock in 1902 amounted to 12,539,717 head, according to the December summary of the internal commerce just issued by the treasury bureau of statistics. The receipts at the five leading stockyards of Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha, St. Louis and St. Joseph during […]
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune on Sunday, June 11, 1876
 The Philadelphia Times describes a couple of remarkable women who are connected with the centennial Exhibition. One of these is Miss Emma Allison, of Ontario, who has the entire charge of the Baxter portable engine of six-horse power. She is by no means a soot-be-grimed and oil-covered amazon, but, on the contrary, of neat, […]
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, August 20, 1897
 But Help Came, the Cub Was Rescued and the Boa Was Slain.     A boa constrictor will swallow anything at all when it wakes up hungry and finds that dinner is not ready. This is the story of a boa which swallowed a cub lion whole. The cub was recovered by an operation, but […]