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…
Category: Old News of the Day
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,…
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…