Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, October 5, 1904
Bloomington Couple Married in These Unique Surroundings. Bloomington, Ill., October 5. A unique wedding attracted much attention. Arthur Anderson and Hattie Ball, a couple from Downs, this county, were made man and wife while standing on a pyramid in a den of lions, panthers and hyenas. Justice W. B. Hendryx accompanied the couple into the […]
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, October 29, 1853
The importation of monkey skins, says the Salem Gazette, has been an important branch of commerce for several years, and we dare say, that many a fair lady has strutted her brief hour in all the glory of monkey skin muff, and rat skin gloves, without suspecting the quality of her finery.
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Tuesday, May 8, 1855
One hundred and fifty thousand fish, of the first quality of herring and shad, were taken on the 24th ult., at the fishery of Charles W. Mixon on the Albermarle sound. The number was so great that four hauls had to be made with small seines of 25,000 each before the large seine could be […]
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Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Monday, January 15, 1855
The Minnesota Pioneer says that two specimens of the American ostrich, male and female, were recently killed near Fort Desmoines, in the state of Iowa. They are described as four and a half feet long, and five feet in height, with bills six inches long, straight and very sharp.They resemble in most points the ostrich […]
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Friday, May 26, 1854
J. N. Brown, of Island Grove, has now a “calf as is a calf.” He is a full blood short horn Durham. On the 8th of April, when four months and 28 days old, he weighed 556 pounds. On the 6th of May he weighed 640 pounds. On the 15th of May, when just six […]
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, March 18, 1854
A friend of ours owns a noble, great Newfoundland dog, about which he tells a great many funny stories, among which is the following: We tell it as it was told to us, premising only that our friend is a man of fair character for veracity, and we believe it ourself. He spent several weeks […]
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Tuesday, March 28, 1854
The only rhinoceros in the country, valued at $10,000, on exhibition at New York, ate hay Sunday night, and fell down dead on Monday morning.
Friday, December 27, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Monday, April 3, 1854
The Haynes Chief offers one thousand head of horses to any respectable white young man, well recommended, who will marry his daughter, a girl of about eighteen, settle down among them and teach them agriculture.
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Friday, December 27, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, July 23, 1853
The French feed hens with bread soaked in wine to make them lay. Soaking bread and eggs in wine in this country, often make the “old cocks lay in the gutter.” We don’t know how it would effect the hens.
Friday, December 27, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Thursday, August 4, 1853
A terrible cloud of locusts was ravaging Southern Mexico for a distance of 400 miles destroying, the indigo and corn crops.