Surprisingly, or maybe not so surprisingly, a lot of headlines in the NJ Digital Newspaper Project papers deal with deaths and tragedy. I suppose this is to be expected, after all, tragedy nets an increase in views, or–at least in…
Category: Old News of the Day
Old News of the Day–May 24-29
We may have mentioned this before, but at the NJ Digital Newspaper Project office, we find ourselves fascinated by old advertisements in NJ’s historical newspapers. Sometimes we see one and wonder, “Why that image for that product?” This advertisement for…
Old News of the Day–May 20-23
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…