Category Archives: Medicine

Nuxated Iron

Posted on August 27, 2015 by Patrick Conway

The regular “This Week in Peterborough” post will happen tomorrow, but to tide you over I give you this wonderful ad, featuring heavyweight champion boxer Jack Dempsey, from the Peterborough Examiner of August 25th, 1919.  Read on, for a bit … Continue reading →

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Death in Peterborough in 1885

Posted on January 13, 2015 by Patrick Conway

  One of the interesting things in the Peterborough newspapers (Examiner and Review both) in the first week of 1886 was a complete recounting of the interment statistics for Little Lake Cemetery in 1885.  That year had seen 147 people … Continue reading →

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Nine Out Of Ten Doctors…

Posted on May 17, 2014 by Patrick Conway

  While hunting through the pages of the 1898 Peterborough Examiner recently, I was struck by the sheer number of ads for patent medicines.  In those un-regulated days, of course, one could pretty much attempt to foist any old concoction … Continue reading →

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