Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, November 24, 1911
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville,Illinois on 11/24/1911. Â Â Â Â Mary Hooper, aged twelve years, of Valley, Pa. is the champion snake killer of that section. She has the skins of twenty-five repitiles dispatched already this season, but none of them so large as the blacksnake she killed after a battle-five feet seven inches.
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Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, February 21, 1902
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 01/21/1902. Story of Judge Baker, a Recent Appointee of Roosevelt.     Judge Baker, who has been appointed to the supreme bench of New Mexico, had as exciting adventure with Indians near Caridon twenty years ago, and when he emerged from a cave, where he had taken refuge […]
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Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, July 6, 1878
From the “Boston Traralier” Â Â Â Â Col. Rice, now of Gen. Miles Fifth United States Infantry, was in company on Tuesday last with a gentleman of our acquaintance, and the conversation naturally turned on Indian warfare and frontier experience, the day being the anniversary of the Custer massacre. Col. Rice, who has seen services in the […]
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Thursday, May 15, 1902
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 05/15/1903. Switch Engine Backs in on Side Track and Takes Horses Away. A Sterling man, owner of a fine driving team, has had one of the greatest experiences on record. Driving to one of of the town factories he had occasion to alight and go into […]
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Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, July 3, 1903
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 07/03/1903. Â Â Â Â William Biddie Williams of Philadelphia, one of the ushers in the recent Hanna-McCormick wedding and formerly of Yale, stopped a runaway horse in Sheridan road, Chicago, and saved children in its path.
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Published in the The Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 3, 1874
Published in The Waukegan Gazette on January 3, 1874. Â Â Â Â A well-disposed black snake joined the worshippers in a Petersburg [Va.] church, and finding the pews all full, took a seat on a rafter. But when, after the benediction, he came down to go out, there was dismay in the congregation. There need not have […]
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Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, December 28, 1922
Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on December 28, 1922. Â Â Â Â At the Bruce Museum of Natural History at Greenwich, Conn., there is quite a collection of snakes, some of which were captured during the past summer upon country expeditions of patrons of the institution. One of these contributions, a garter snake, was […]
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Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, January 10, 1896
Punlished in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on January 10, 1896. A little Dakota girl who has a strange fondness for reptiles. Â Â Â Â The librarian on Congress recently received from an artist at Hot Springs, S. D., a photograph of Martha McIntyre, an 8-year-old child, who from her infancy has had rattlesnakes for pets. […]
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Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Tuesday, February 21, 1922
Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on February 21, 1922. Â Â Â Â A strange case of maternal devotion is reported by an Ontario farmer who has a sow with a litter that has adopted a half-grown kitten and permits it to nurse with her babies and to sleep with them. The kitten has been […]
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Published in the The Waukegan Daily-Sun on Friday, July 8, 1898
Published in The Waukegan Daily-Sun on July 8, 1898. Â Â Â Â A coasting steamer was wrecked near Sydney, N. S. W. The captain tied life lines to some pigs which formed part of the cargo. These on being thrown over-board quickly swam ashore, taking the lines with them. Communication being thus established, every person on board […]
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