Published in the The Waukegan Gazette on Saturday, February 28, 1874
Published in The Waukegan Gazette on February 28, 1874. An eagle recently attemped to carry off a girl fourteen years old. The bird found its prey too heavy to raise more than four or five feet from the ground and finally droped her. The girl was terribly lacerated by the talons of the eagle.
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Friday, August 4, 1922
Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on August 4, 1922. Six thousand persons signed a petition to save the life of a dog which a London [England] magistrate had ordered to be killed on account of its alleged ferocity.
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Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Wednesday, October 4, 1916
Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette Published: October 4, 1916 Leitchfield, Ky.-Henry Cecil of Cecilia in a lake near his home has devised a most successful and novel way to catch fish, according to Roy Bond. Cecil has a number of ducks that frequent this lake. He ties a short fishing line to the duck’s foot […]
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Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, April 24, 1896
Published by The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on April 24, 1896. Â Â Â Â Bessie Rooney, the 10-year-old sister of Michael Rooney, the bareback rider, was about to be hugged to death by a bear the other day at Tattersall’s circus in Chicago, when Babylon, one of Ringling Brothers’ big elephants, knocked the brute down and […]
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun on Sunday, January 1, 1899
Waukegan Daily Sun Published: January 1, 1899 Mrs. Peter Minetti of Belleville owns a monkey and confines it in a wire cage. The other day Mrs. Minetti put some fresh coal in the grate fire, locked up the house and went to visit some friends. A lump of burning coal fell to the floor and […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Friday, June 30, 1922
Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on June 30, 1922. Pet dogs have become so popular among the feminine population of Berlin that theater managers have been compelled to install rooms where the dogs may be checked. Some patrons complain that none of the theaters has made similar provision for checking babies, and […]
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Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Monday, March 20, 1922
Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on March 20, 1922. Â Â Â Â Indians are very fond of dogs, and around every wigwam, tepee, hut, or wherever they reside, there are always from 6 to 20 wolfish dogs. An Indian dog loves an Indian and hates a white man with equal intensity. When a white […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Wednesday, August 16, 1922
Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on August 16, 1922. There is mourning at the home of A. J. Burton Waukegan’s laundryman. “BOB” the bull pup, who had made his home there for six years, has gone to his reward. Sickness cut “BOB” down in the flower of his youth the dog being […]
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Published in the The Waukegan Gazette on Saturday, September 26, 1885
Published in The Waukegan Gazette on September 26, 1885. Â Â Â Â Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 18-A. Haight, of Barnum’s show said Thursday that Jumbo was killed while trying to save Tom Thumb from impending death. As Jumbo saw the train, which was only when it was close upon him, he made a rush for his protage, […]
Published in the The Waukegan Gazette on Saturday, September 29, 1860
Published in The Waukegan Gazette on September 29, 1860. Cats are in demand at Pike’s Peak, as mice are plenty, though rats are not known in this part of the country. Cats sell at a high price. Indians are said to be very fond of them, and have been known to give three or four […]
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