Traveling around New Jersey’s historical newspapers for late April into early May, some ads caught our eyes. The first, from the April 29, 1870 West-Jersey Pioneer and advertises the latest in clothes washing technology! This advertisement from the April 27,…
Author: Caryn Radick
Old News of the Day–April 19-25
At the NJ Digital Newspaper Office, we enjoy looking around our historical newspapers to see what happened at this time in years past. Here’s a brief selection of what we found for the week of April 19-25. Much of the…
Old News of the Day–April 12-18
At the NJ Digital Newspaper Project Office, we have found ourselves looking at how the newspapers portrayed the events of this week in 1912. The Titanic sank in the early hours of April 15, but the newspapers for that day…