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The July 1, 1976 Peterborough Transcript described it as follows: “An event that had long been feared, and one that had worried the Hopkins family for more than a generation, occurred in Greenfield early Sunday morning.The grain mill burned flat.”The...
The Feb. 2, 1967, Peterborough Transcript called it “thumping” – the 1,278-450 vote in favor of merging the towns of Antrim, Bennington, Dublin, Francestown, Greenfield, Hancock, Peterborough, Sharon, and Temple into a Contoocook Valley school...
Vandalism that included ransacking the school cafeteria, spreading ketchup over the kitchen stove and counters and strewing fresh fruits and vegetables from the refrigerator all over the floor landed 14- and 16-year-old students at Conant High School...
A new player in the local media landscape appeared Nov. 21, 1956, as the Monadnock Ledger presented its first issue.An editor’s note pointed out that it was a good week to launch a newspaper in Jaffrey because of all the news, including the founding...
The 1954 election brought an easy victory for Republican Perkins Bass of Peterborough, as he won a seat in Congress by a 50,721-33,406 margin over George Brown of Winchester.Bass served in Congress until 1963, after losing to Thomas J. McIntyre for...
It’s not as if the front page of the June 18, 1953, Peterborough Transcript lacked news. It was the 20th anniversary of the Peterborough Players, and New Hampshire Gov. Hugh Gregg lost a milking contest to his Maine counterpart, Burton Cross, due to...
As Peterborough ’’First Citizen’' Mrs. Edward MacDowell – Marian MacDowell, as the modern Ledger-Transcript would refer to her today – celebrated the opening of the dam named for her late husband, the Aug. 3, 1950, Peterborough Transcript also...
If hoarders would stop what local businesss called “war-scare buying” – the Korean War had started the month before – the July 27, 1950 Peterborough Transcript reported that there would be enough for everybody.The most-popular item for people to stock...
After supporters of a proposed FM radio station on Mount Monadnock had been heard a a previous meeting, it was time for opponents to have their say during a meeting of the board of control of the Monadnock Region Association.The Jan. 18, 1945,...
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the start of World War II in the United States led to several news items in the Dec. 11, 1941, issue of The Peterborough Transcript.Of immediate concern was “the safety of a local boy, John P. Armstrong son of...
Despite Franklin Delano Roosevelt winning another term as president, Peterborough and the state stayed solidly Republican in the 1940 election, but as the Nov. 7 Peterborough Transcript reports, Sharon made its own news during the election.For the...
“September 21, 1938, was a day of flood, fire, and hurricane that left the town of Peterborough completely altered in appearance, and dazed by a property loss of at least $500,000, exclusive of heavy forestry destruction throughout the township that...
How devoted to his Peterborough Transcript was David M. Hopkins of Greenfield?He had the paper delivered to Alaska, where he was leading a U.S. Geological Survey team working near the Arctic Circle approximately 150 miles from Nome. The Aug. 21, 1947,...
When Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected president, the Nov. 10, 1932 Peterborough Transcript reported that “the election found Peterborough in the Republican column, as usual, but, like in all other places across the state, the majorities were much...
The Nov. 21, 1929 Peterborough Transcript recapped a talk given to the Progressive Club by Mrs. Harry Smith of Durham, where members “learned much about the trend of current affairs.”“To her mind, the outstanding event of September, and October was...
The opening of The Peterborough Hospital – now Monadnock Community Hospital -- as chronicled in the June 21, 1923 Peterborough Transcript was something “which has been in the minds and thoughts of some of our citizens for a long time.”“The...
The headline, small though it was, in the April 11, 1917, Peterboro Transcript marking America’s entry into World War I was simple – “War!”“America now faces the irrepressible conflict. After months and even years of nerve-wracking uncertainly, the...
The Page 1 news of the Sept. 1, 1910 Peterboro Transcript included news of Hancock’s Old Home Week Festival, in which “our friends returned, it seemed to the writer, in increased numbers, to look again into the faces, and to again feel the warm...
The May 2, 1907, Peterboro Transcript included the text of a speech given March 24 by Howard Mansfield at the second dinner of the MacDowell Association of New York City, in which he said, “The union of genius with the highest ideals made Edward...
The Peterboro Transcript rang in the 1900s on Jan. 4 with an announcement from Cohen & Quint, New York Clothing Company of Peterboro that due to a need for money because of increased costs, it was selling its entire stock of clothing – “$5,000 to...
A writer to the Feb. 21, 1895, issue of the Peterboro Transcript wished that in the paper’s “fair and conciliatory way” it had added to its previous week’s editorial columns “a brief statement of the respective claims of Peterboro and Dublin as...
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