Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, April 11, 1868
Lately, dogs have been disappeared in Antwerp, Belgium, in a mysterious manner. The disappearances grew so numerous that special efforts were made to elucidate the mystery, and the result was the apprehension of two persons, who confessed that during one year they stole no fewer than two-hundred dogs, the skins of which sold to toy […]
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Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, August 13, 1851
The Sandwich Islanders regard dogs as great delicacies. A letter from Honolulu, in noticing the preparations for the celebration of the king’s birthday, says-“Some unfortunate dogs are being scalded and scraped by my own residence; on enquiry it appeared that they were destined for the palace.”
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Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, October 24, 1851
A dog feast. This evening, in the Cheyenne’s camp, for the first time, I witnessed the interesting process of killing and preparing a dog for a feast. The victim was a large cur, quite fat. Two squaws lassoed him, and hung him up till he was dead. They then put him on a fire, and […]
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Saturday, January 20, 2018
Published in the Chicago Press and Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, April 28, 1860
A poor Irish woman named Mary Conner, about thirty years of age, being about to become a mother, on Sunday last applied for admission to Bellevue Hospital. She was at once taken in, and placed in what is known as the “waiting room,” where there were already several patients. During the evening she was attended […]
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Wednesday, January 3, 2018
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, November 4, 1905
Washburn Springs the Scene of Most Repulsive Incident. Woman Said To Have Killed Sick Porkers, and Then Served Them to Her Boarders Who Summarily Took Flight. There have been many startling tales given to the public as originating in the foreign settlement-Washburn Springs- but the one which is perhaps the most repulsive and really unbelievable […]
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, July 1, 1912
Two-Months-Old Child Seriously Hurt by Chicken that Invades House. Mount Vernon, Illinois July 1.-The two-month-old child of Mr. and Mrs. A. Potts, living at Thacher’s Gap, southeast of this city, was injured by a hen that pecked out its right eye. The child was playing on the floor and the hen wandered into the house […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, February 21, 1910
Swallowed Reptile in Glass of Water About 10 Years Ago. Post-Mortem Examination Reveals the Presence of Fifteen, Some of Which Were Still Alive. Trebton, N.J., Feb. 19.-As a result of drinking a lizard in a glass of water ten years ago, Mrs. Ida Dyeson is dead at her home in this city. The case is […]
Thursday, November 24, 2016
Published in the New York Gazette, New York, New York on Thursday, February 24, 1735
On Monday last a woman in Dedman’s Place, Southwark London, England leaving a nurse child (a boy about two years old) in a cradle with a puppy to play with it, upon her return found the dog had gnaw’d off the private parts in such a manner, that its life is dispaired of.
Thursday, October 20, 2016
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Thursday, June 10, 1728
A woman in France for a considerable time had a swelling in her belly without knowing the cause thereof, as feeling no pain. The physician applied several remedies to deliver her, but in vain, for it grew bigger; and in consideration of her age the Faculty of Physicians allowed her a pension to live on […]
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Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Thursday, April 22, 1728
I took my departure from Blackwood-Key, in the Bay of Honduras, in the sloop Dove, the 24th of December, 1728 last. The 3rd day of February I made land in the lat 39. and 40 Min. about 4 leagues to the Northward of Cape May: We had been then some time a short allowance, both […]