Perth Amboy Evening News (Perth Amboy, N.J.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
6,576 issues from 1903 to 1924, published in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, digitised for Chronicling America.
Under new ownership and with a new name, the former Perth Amboy (New Jersey) 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 Clevenger purchased the newspaper with Olmstead serving as president and Clevenger as editor.
Clevenger had been raised and educated in New Jersey, later attending Drexel University in Philadelphia where he graduated from the private secretarial school and then spent one year training to be a lawyer before becoming a journalist. Before coming to the Perth Amboy Evening News, Clevenger had worked at the Asbury Park Journal and the Newark Evening News. He retired as editor of the Perth Amboy Evening News in 1930.
Published daily except Sunday, the Perth Amboy Evening News had an independent political stance, focusing on good government at all levels. Early editions of the paper had almost no international coverage, no gossip or chit-chat, and only cursory national coverage of anything other than major events. Instead, the paper devoted itself primarily to coverage of local activities in Perth Amboy and the surrounding municipalities, e.g., the paving of roads, building sewers and playgrounds, and the development of the fire department. As a stalwart supporter of good government, the paper supported Governor Woodrow Wilson who had promised to clean up New Jersey politics and instill faith in government. The paper also supported Wilson during his…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Perth Amboy, New Jersey, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress