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Article: BENEFITS CHANNEL 11 BOOKS PUT NEW HAMPSHIRE IN PERSPECTIVE NEW FIVE-VOLUME SERIES TELLS HISTORY OF STATE'S REGIONS IN WORDS AND PICTURES
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 8, 1989
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It was an unusual place to publish a daily newspaper, but in
1877, in the Tip Top House on the summit of Mount Washington, a
crusty entrepreneur did just that.
Late-breaking stories for Frank Burt's "Among the Clouds" were
written on the way up the mountain on the Cog Railway. After
printing, railway workers on sled-like contraptions that fit over
the tracks zoomed down the mountain with bundles of newspapers on
their laps. The trip usually took 10 minutes, but one man bragged
of making the treacherous three-mile run in less than three