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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...

The gathering of “a score of merchants, brokers, publishers, and reporters” at 67 Green St. spotlighted in the Peterboro Transcript of Nov. 27, 1884, were there to hear the “new acoustic telephone, operated without the aid of electricity.”The people...

If, today, the state Legislature approved a bill allowing a portion of one Monadnock region town to split off from another to form its own municipality, there would be huge headlines splashed across the front page of the Monadnock...

When looking at the April 20, 1861 edition, note the items regarding “The Union Forever – Woman’s Pluck” and “An Interview with the Southern Commissioners.” The Civil War had started April 12.“The Union Forever” offers “’An incident in the succession...

Along with “Miss Todd, M.D., or A Disease of the Heart” and a description of the new territories of Kansas and Nebraska stating that “these emigrants are all either slave owners or the friends of the Institution of Slavery,” the July 19, 1854,...

The Contoocook Transcript, published by Miller & Scott, proclaimed itself “A weekly newspaper devoted to agriculture, manufactures, education, literature, misecellany and news.” Readers could subscribe for $1 per year in advance or if paid within...