Author: John Brennan

Independence Day

The following full page illustration ran in the July 3, 1911 issue of the Perth Amboy Evening News. The country was preparing to celebrate the 135th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Yesterday, we celebrated the 242nd…

50,000+ Pages and Going Strong

Recently Chronicling America added more issues of the Perth Amboy Evening News to their site. With this latest inclusion, 50,207 pages of this newspaper are now freely available online. They include issues from March 30, 1903 through June 29, 1918.…

100 Years Ago: May 21, 1918

On May 21, 2018 the Great War dominated the news. The Perth Amboy Evening News front page contained stories that local contributions for the Red Cross reached the half way mark of their $40,000 goal, America’s first field army (200,000…