On May 21, 2018 the Great War dominated the news. The Perth Amboy Evening News front page contained stories that local contributions for the Red Cross reached the half way mark of their $40,000 goal, America’s first field army (200,000…
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Extra! Extra!
The presses keep rolling! Additional issues of the Perth Amboy Evening News are now available on the Library of Congress’ Chronicling America website. This latest batch adds newspapers from July 1, 1910 through March 31, 1913 to those already online.…
A Brief History of the Perth Amboy Evening News
Under new ownership and with a new name, the former Perth Amboy Republican was launched as the Perth Amboy Evening News on March 30, 1903, with the intention of being more than a party organ. Daniel P. Olmstead and James…