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The following short articles appeared in the June 4, 1896, edition of the RANGELEY LAKES newspaper. In our last installment, we shared how the 1896 New York Sporting Exposition had concluded and Miss Cornelia Fly Rod Crosby, who was in charge of the Maine booth there, had blackballed the RANGELEY LAKES Outing Edition (10,000 extra […]
By Compiled by Bill Pierce Executive Director of the Rangeley Lakes Historical Society Read Article What follows are some clippings from Page 1 of the December 10, 1896 edition of the RANGELEY LAKES newspaper. This edition was so interesting that I never got passed page 1 before finding some interesting material. What follows below is from a feature entitled “Recollections” found above the fold. Just as we today enjoy looking back to get a “snapshot” of what 1890’s Rangeley was like, they were doing the very same thing in “Recollections” which harkened back to the 1840’s. Of...