Published in the Chicago Press and Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, July 30, 1859
Greenly writes a long letter describing his trip from Denver City to the mouth of the Platte River. He thus relates a discussion that occurred one night around the campfire. “By the way, there was a discussion at supper between my three companions-all mountaineers of ripe experience-as to the relative merits of certain meats, of […]
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, August 25, 1897
Believed to Be the One Hit by a Locomotive a Year Ago. One day last fall the locomotive of a passenger train on the Western New York & Pennsylvania railroad, running 40 miles an hour, near Watsonville, Pa., struck a bear that came out of the woods and attempted to cross the track in front […]
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Saturday, October 11, 2014
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, July 25, 1902
Near Tulsa, I. T., a Creek Indian boy, Charles Mingo, was found dead, securely fixed on the horns of a wild Texas steer. When found the steer was trying to dislodge the boy by rubbing against the banks of a small ravine.
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Saturday, October 11, 2014
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 1, 1902
Twenty-eight Animals of a Large Herd Fall in Electrical Storm. During an electrical storm which passed through Plainfield twenty-eight head of cattle were killed by lightning. They were in a wooded pasture one and one-half miles south of town, and were owned by the George brothers, farmers in the vicinity, who had seventy cattle in […]
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Saturday, October 11, 2014
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, ILinois on Friday, December 26, 1902
The leading animal dealer of this city has for some time past been in the habit of feeding his boa constrictors, ball snakes, and black snakes on white rats, rabbits and guinea pigs, animals that multiply so rapidly that this is the only means he has of disposing of those he can not sell. As […]
Monday, September 22, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, January 27, 1913
Montana Lad Has Both Legs Frozen, but May Live. Butte, Mont., 27.-For fifteen hours eleven -year-old Frank Engstrom of Georgetown, a mining camp near Anadonds, was treed by a mountain lion a few nights ago while the thermometer registered thirty-five degrees below zero. Later the little fellow was brought to Butte and two frozen legs […]
Saturday, September 20, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, July 12, 1898
How a Well Known Ravine in Texas Got it’s Name. A Herd of 15,000 Cattle Stampeded at Night and Before They Were Stopped 2,700 of Them Were Killed-Costly Blunder Made by a Cowboy. One of the most desperate stampedes of cattle ever witnessed by a Texas cowboy, says Rev. J. B. Cranfill of Waco, Texas, […]
Friday, September 19, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, January 8, 1908
Washington Man Wins Desperate Encounter With Big Bird of Ill Omen in a Chicken Coop. Numerous raids have been made recently on people’s chicken houses in the vicinity of Meyern Falls, Wash., by hoboes, who have always succeeded in escaping unpunished with their booty. H. C. Buchanan, an old gentleman sixty-five years old, who lives […]
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Friday, September 19, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, January 20, 1913
It appears that a new use has been found for the skin of the common rat. In England, it is said, the bookbinders have taken to using these skins for covers of fine editions hitherto bound to high grade leathers. It is reported that a trade amounting to one-quarter million dollars a year has developed […]
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Friday, September 19, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 11, 1913
The wonders of science will never cease. Paris has received a delicate jolt by the exhibition of a rat which carries around a pianola [piano] in its internal organism. A touch of its tail produces airs from the operas. M. Bertrand Lebaudy, the French zoological expert and savant, discovered that the ribs of the rat […]
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