Last month, the staff of the NJ Digital Newspaper Office wrote about the U.S. census in NJ’s historical newspapers. With census on our minds, we couldn’t help but notice this headline from the May 21, 1914 Bridgeton Pioneer. We hope…
Category: Advertisements
Old News of the Day–May 3-7
Although we in the NJ Digital Newspaper Project office see plenty of images that make us do a double-take, we needed a minute to take in everything going on in this advertisement for a Barnum and Bailey Circus performance from…
Old News of the Day–April 27-30
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,…