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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. Often, the person most depended upon by the editor, Harry P. Dill, for these memories of early Rangeley was a sage old gentleman who went by the pen name of “Old Laker”. I am led to believe that in 1890 the reader was just expected to know who exactly Old Laker was, because I have never seen where Editor Dill shares his real name, however I believe this was none other than Deacon Lak ....