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Have an Elephant Stew

Monday, March 1, 2010
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Thursday, November 13, 1919

Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on November 13, 1919.      An elephant’s foot takes longer to cook than any other meat. To make it tender it must be boiled for thirty-six hours.

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Lumberman Eaten by Wolves.

Monday, March 1, 2010
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, December 6, 1901

       News has come from Gilmour and Houston’s lumber camp at Bark Lake on the Gatineau that Edward Connor, 18 years old, a lumberman, had been eaten by wolves.

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Get Ducks Drunk; Bag Many Easily

Monday, March 1, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Friday, November 24, 1922

Waukegan News Sun Published: November 24, 1922 Milford, Ind. Nov. 24-Scores of wild ducks are being bagged here by a few Kosciusko county hunters, who use a new method of obtaining the game. According to one hunter, he places corn which has been soaked for a long period, in moonshine liquor, on the banks of […]

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Jumbo Proof Against Electrocution

Monday, March 1, 2010
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Monday, November 11, 1901

Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on November 11, 1901.      Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 11.-An attempt to kill with electricity the vicious elephant Jumbo 2 was a failure here Saturday. The big brute was not “fazed by 11,000 volts-didn’t wag his ears at all.

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Owl put up good fight

Monday, March 1, 2010
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Wednesday, April 5, 1922

Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on April 5, 1922.      The ferocity of the white owl is well known. A hunter shot a mallard that fell upon land and on going to retrieve his prize, found the wounded bird had been attacked by an Arctic owl, whose wing spread was six feet. […]

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Hawk almost kills boy – Sinks talons into face of lad who threw snowball

Monday, March 1, 2010
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Monday, March 9, 1914

Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette Published: March 9, 1914 Milford, Del, March 7, A large hawk almost killed a small son of L. N. Horsey, a farmer near here. The hawk had killed two chickens when Edward threw a snowball at it. The bird abandoned its meal and turned on the boy. It sank its […]

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Combat between a hawk and a snake

Monday, March 1, 2010
Published in the The Waukegan Gazette on Wednesday, November 19, 1862

Published in The Waukegan Gazette on November 19, 1862 We have been informed of a singular combat that took place in Pelham, N. H., a few days since, between a hawk and a black snake. Mr. Tristam F. Palmer, while walking in a field in Pelham, came upon a hawk and a black snake in […]

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Battle Between Man An Owl

Monday, March 1, 2010
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Thursday, November 28, 1918

Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on November 28, 1918. Jack O’Connor has thrilling experience in which his clothes are torn off      Jack O’Connor, proprietor of Blarney Island resort, Grass Lake, shot and wounded an enormous white owl, Wednesday at Grass Lake and thinking the big bird was disabled, he attemted to […]

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