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100 Years Ago: May 21, 1918

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…

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.…

1903: Going Local, Perth Amboy

It is easy to assume old, large circulation newspapers were primarily interested in sharing important national, state, and municipal news. Just look at their big front page headlines! Naturally, the publishers wanted to keep people informed on significant developments both…