Saturday, October 11, 2014
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, December 26, 1902
Angered by Brilliant Sweaters, Animal Pursues College Boys. The Dickinson College football team of Carlisle, Pa., had an encounter with a mad bull which gave the boys the chase of their lives. The team started on a cross country run and a few miles above Carlisle jumped over a fence into a pasture that contained […]
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, January 2, 1908
Tuck is an Ordinary Looking Fox Terrier, but His Owner Declares He is the Smartest Canine in the United States. R. M. Smart, proprietor of a grain elevator at Xenia, O., claims to have in Tuck, an ordinary looking fox terrier, the smartest dog in the United States. The dog has never been taught a […]
Friday, September 19, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, August 14, 1912
St. Joseph, Mo., Aug. 14.-R. R. Warren’s livery barn at Trenton, Mo., burned. Loss, $75,000. The largest mule in the world was among the stock destroyed. It weighed 2,048 pounds.
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Thursday, September 18, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, October 15, 1897
Whiskers, Well Known Among the Chicago Sailors, Is No More. There is gloom among the river men at Chicago. “Whiskers,” the steamboat dog familiar to every sailor who enters the harbor, is dead. Through an inadvertency he was shut up in the pilothouse of the tug Monitor Friday night and was suffocated. Whiskers was known […]
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Thursday, September 18, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, October 12, 1897
The little English sparrows are the gamest birds that live. They have driven the bluebirds, robins, martens, and swallows away from most of their old haunts and taken possession. Several persons watched a flock of the brave little fellows try to drive a cat out of the park at the city hall this morning. Hundreds […]
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Friday, September 12, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, January 14, 1913
Leavenworth, Kan., Jan. 13.-John Francis, animal trainer for a circus was rendered unconscious by the kick of a dead horse here today. The horse had been killed to provide food for lions. The animal had been dead 10 minutes when the muscles of its leg relaxed, causing the hoof to strike Francis with great force […]
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Friday, September 12, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, October 25, 1912
Springfield, Ill., Oct. 25-“Tom,” a pet baboon, tried to transform Springfield into an African jungle and nearly succeeded. He escaped from his cage at the No. 1 engine house, where he had been the pet of the firemen. For an hour he had things his own way, raiding fruit stands and biting four children, one […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, October 6, 1898
Grasshoppers, Wasps, Etc., Driven Out by Forest Fires, Fly Over City of Wichita. Wichita, Kan., Oct.-Several hours before sunset Monday there began to arrive here, flying low over the city, a cloud of insects comprising grasshoppers, wasps, bald hornets, several varieties of butterflies and wild bees. They are drifting slowly with a light breeze toward […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, August 23, 1910
Light-House Keeper Discovers Dog Watching Coat Last Night and Crowning Story Results. One of the light house keepers discovered a dog standing watch over a boys coat on the south pier last evening, and at first it was believed that there had been a drowning. The dog was taken to the police station and an […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, March 15, 1905
Without losing a single animal, seven shepherds recently drove a flock of 14,000 sheep from Mamuga, in Queensland, to Narrabri in New South Wales, a distance of 900 miles.
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