A Day to Debut Your Best New Spring Fashions Spring is here. Flowers are blooming, trees are budding, and the orchestra of lawn maintenance machinery is now an integral part of our morning wake up routines as scenes of winter…
Easter Parade
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Pistachio Day
February 26th is Pistachio Day! At the NJ Digital Newspaper Project office, we thought we’d share a few pistachio related items from the 1921 Perth Amboy Evening News. This ad from advertises chocolate covered pistachio nut “nougotines” along with other…
Presidential Birthdays
In the early 1900s, Lincoln’s and Washington’s birthdays were separate holidays, not yet combined into Presidents’ Day. This ad from the February 10, 1917 Perth Amboy Evening News shows how The Boston Store planned to commemorate these presidents’ birthdays. This…