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 the May 3, 1906 Bridgeton Pioneer. Along with the Dip of Death, the May 8 Bridgeton event would include “More High Class Features Than All Other Shows Combined.”
New Jersey has many great claims to fame, but according to a May 7, 1909 Newark Star and Newark Advertiser article, the lack of marriage license requirements in the state was leading to a bit of a problem.
Finally, we were impressed with the level of detail in a drawing from the May 4, 1911 Perth Amboy Evening News advertising a grand opening of the J. Christ Co. department store.
