A super-compendium of money-saving and money earning tips that are often overlooked. Tips for household, office, family and personal money saving in today's depressed economy. Some are your basic 'whack on the side of the head', other suggestions are best practices for couponing, pet, home and car care. Contents: Personal Advice - Dealing with Friends and Family - Clothing - Reading Material - Viewing Material - Entertainment - Eating In - Eating Out - Health - Food Shopping - Food Storage - Cooking - Couponing - Non-Food - Baby - Fix things - Climate Control - Electricity - Water - Laundry -...

This is the Large Print Title. A super-compendium of money-saving and money earning tips that are often overlooked. Tips for household, office, family and personal money saving in today's depressed economy. Some are your basic 'whack on the side of the head', other suggestions are best practices for couponing, pet, home and car care. Contents: Personal Advice - Dealing with Friends and Family - Clothing - Reading Material - Viewing Material - Entertainment - Eating In - Eating Out - Health - Food Shopping - Food Storage - Cooking - Couponing - Non-Food - Baby - Fix things - Climate Control -...

This previously unpublished memoir of George N. Cross, born in Methuen, Mass. in 1853, is a vivid picture and historical account of rural life in the 1800's of a small town in Massachusetts along the Merrimack River caught between the two emerging and thriving cities of Lawrence and Haverhill. His detailed descriptions of his home and the ways of the farm offer a real flavor of a bygone era. George N. Cross was a true Renaissance man of his day. For many years Cross was the Headmaster of the Robinson Female Seminary in Exeter, NH and then became a celebrated world travelling lecturer. His...

In August 1878, Rev. Pliny Steele Boyd, then of Amesbury, Mass. and his sons Wendell and Parsons took a month long sojourn up the Merrimac River from Powow River in Amesbury, Mass. to Passaconnaway Island in New Hampshire and back again.. Joined by Mrs. Boyd for the Amesbury leg of the trip, they soon were battling the Merrimac's strong current for a 50 mile journey, through Northern Massachusetts and Southern New Hampshire, traveling by canal lock and portage the rapids, even once by dray wagon. A boys own adventure of camping, swimming and fishing in their own backyard. Pliny Steele Boyd,...

A unique collection of delicious recipes from 1927. Contributions from the women of Methuen's First Congregational Church. Contributions from the women of Methuen's First Congregational Church Major contributors are Mrs. Maude A. Buswell, Miss Florence Dodge, Mrs. H.A. Dodge, Mrs. J. A Emerson, Mrs. William Enos, Mrs. E. W. A. Jenkinson, Mrs. Charles H. Oliphant, Mrs. Charles E. Russell, Mrs. George Tenney, Mrs. Hattie A. Wardwell.

Jeremiah N. Reynolds (1799-1858), an American newspaper editor, lecturer, explorer and author who became an influential advocate for scientific expeditions. Reynolds gathered first-hand observations of Mocha Dick, an albino sperm whale off Chile who bedeviled a generation of whalers for thirty years before succumbing to one. Mocha Dick survived many skirmishes (by some accounts at least 100) with whalers before he was eventually killed. In May 1839, The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine published Reynolds' "Mocha Dick: Or the White Whale of the Pacific," the inspiration for Herman...

"This book is so good that even someone who knows nothing about cooking can tell from these recipes how the dishes will taste. There are many recipes in it that you won't find in other cookbooks. " Daily Boston Globe, 1947. A brand new edition, not a PDF reprint. Fully indexed.

The Town of Methuen Massachusetts in nineteen hundred and three: pictorial souvenir issued in connection with the Old Home Week celebration. An up-to-date booklet, for the visitor, the resident, and for transmission to show something of Methuen, one of the most attractive suburban towns of the Old Bay State.

Written in 1934, Shay based his work of the life of famed pirate Mary Read on the available histories. In this delightful novel she is depicted as a fetching pirate wench who roams the Romantic Carribees, despoiling shipping and taking lovers. Read lived disguised as a boy by her mother, from an early age, as an adult she proved herself in the military, and aboard ships. When a West Indies bound ship that she was on was taken by pirates, she was forced her to join them. In 1720 she joined pirate John "Calico Jack" Rackham and his companion, the female pirate Anne Bonny. The rest as they say,...

Rain, Hail and Baked Beans combines two things New England is famous for recipes and weather. The recipes are contributed by Miss Duncan Macdonald well known Boston radio-broadcaster and food columnist, with cheerful Yankee interludes by almanac publisher Robb Sagendorph. This beloved classic from 1958, has many of our childhood comfort foods and those of our parents. It is a staple of the New England bookshelf.