By Kathy Arlt. Contributing Writer @ Blogfinger
The New York Times has published “all the news that’s fit to print”—international, national and local—since 1851. The Ocean Grove Times began publication in 1893, merged with the Ocean Grove Record for a year in 1895, became the Ocean Grove and The Shore Times in 1935, and ended its run as the Ocean Grove and Neptune Times. It’s focus was decidedly local, though not strictly on Ocean Grove. Here are two front-page stories from 1899:
In the 1800s, and for most of the 1900s, too—before computer composition made it possible to easily adjust type sizes and spacing to fill a column of print—newspapers often used “fillers” to avoid gaps on their pages. Small ads were common, and so, apparently, were jokes that had been published in other newspapers. Here are two fillers from 1899:
