The above photo and headline is by my old pal, Bill McLaughlin, a wordsmith of the first order. The story was carried at the top of Page One of the Adirondack Daily Enterprise on Friday, Aug. 28, 1959 and is pure McLaughlin. The events were taking place at the “Home of 1,000 Animals” ...

There were many other news stories on page 1 of that nearly 100-year-old newspaper, including a fundraiser by the Lend-a-Hand Society “for undernourished school children.” The society was selling “cultivated roses arriving by tomorrow’s early morning train. The aid of a number of ...

Well, a little more than 60 years ago, I keep telling you that four out three people can’t do math. I always imagine what it would be like if some old timers could come back and take a look at what happened — things that followed after they had laid the groundwork. For instance, how ...

Well, dear readers of this incredible, detailed wonderful historic weekly column; judging from the response from the last two issues taken from a 1895 weekly Lake Placid newspaper, you love the stories as much as I do. The advertising is as interesting as the stories... unfortunately, no ...

This is Chapter II from this treasure of a newspaper given to me by Greg Peacock. Last week we published the name of the editor/owner, J. W. Ball and the rates, etc., as required by law. However, by reading down further, we discovered Mr. Ball was the new owner. “We have been running this ...

The title tells it all — a weekly, four-page newspaper that was “Published Every Saturday Morning at Lake Placid, N.Y.” Subscription price $1 a year, J. W. Ball, editor. Greg Peacock gave me a copy of this newspaper and as we perused his faded, tattered copy, we wondered why the front ...