Monthly Archives: June 2015

This Week in Peterborough: 1910

Posted on June 24, 2015 by Patrick Conway

This is a milestone post here at the blog, as we find ourselves once again looking at late June.  That means that we have now come through a full calendar year’s worth of posts, as the series began with a … Continue reading →

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This Week In Peterborough: 1909

Posted on June 19, 2015 by Patrick Conway

As spring turned into summer in 1909, we look upon the Peterborough newspapers and find… well, not much, really, at least compared to some years!  It was a fairly quiet time in the city.  “Not much,” however, is not the … Continue reading →

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A Denizen…

Posted on June 18, 2015 by Patrick Conway

Our peek at Peterborough in 1909 will be delayed until tomorrow, but in the meantime I thought I’d invite you to check out one of the critters that inhabits our fair city.  That’s an osprey, of course (pandion haliaetus), and … Continue reading →

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This Week in Peterborough: 1908

Posted on June 11, 2015 by Patrick Conway

“A half-dozen of Spaulding’s regulation baseballs had a hard time at Riverside Park on Saturday afternoon,” wrote the Peterborough Review on June 15th, 1908.  The occasion?  The much-anticipated opening of the ballpark’s new grandstand on the 13th, when Peterborians bore witness … Continue reading →

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This Week in Peterborough: 1907

Posted on June 4, 2015 by Patrick Conway

June of 1907 saw the summer season about to swing into gear in Peterborough.  Despite the pleasant weather, the news was somewhat mixed — cheerful in some quarters, and not so much elsewhere.  Read on, for “A Pathetic Death,” a … Continue reading →

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