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OC newspaper archive update

 Added a few hundred more entries in the searchable newspaper clipping index  located at    http://oceancounty.rf.gd/?i=1

Hardman Brown, former slave, dies in 1968

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 Jackson News 18 Jul 1968

Two survive car crash, 1968

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 Jackson News 8 Aug 1968

Coloured couple seeks position, 1920

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 Lakewood Citizen 17 Dec 1920

Mrs. Samuel Malsbury has a fall, 1880

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 New Jersey Courier 12 Dec 1880

Isolation hospital to be built at New Lisbon, 1917

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 New Egypt Press 7 Dec 1917

Barnegat goes dry 1918

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 New Jersey Courier 24 May 1918

Plane lands at mouth of Toms River, 1918

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 New Jersey Courier 24 May 1918

Daniel Chadwick kills a snake, 1873

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 New Jersey Courier 25 Sep 1873

Edward Oland Nixon, 1918

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 New Egypt Press 4 Apr 1918

Edward Kimble joins his wife in death, 1915

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 New Egypt Press 26 Feb 1915

John Weber is NOT dead, 1915

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 New Egypt Press 26 Feb 1915

Handkerchief may reveal identity, 1915

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 New Egypt Press 26 Feb 1915

Auto blown over, Jan 1914

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 New Egypt Press 16 Jan 1914

Farm Store on Route 37 went under, as predicted.

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 Route 37 Toms River.  Bad idea to open a half assed convenience store right next to Wawa.  Some vandals had some fun with the sign (It used to say 'Creamery Donuts Every Wednesday')

Chomp on Route 37

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 This place replaced Joe Joe's Italian Hot Dogs on Route 37.  Took this pic in Dec 2022.  Less than a year later it has already been replaced by another eatery. 

Updated to Index

 Added about 800 more entries to the Ocean County newspapers database at  http://oceancounty.rf.gd/phpSearch.php

Farm Stores 'Coming Soon' on Rt 37 2020

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 Didn't even make it to mid-2023.  It will soon be a Taco shop. Who thought a tiny little drive-up convenience store would be a good idea immediately next door to a Wawa?

Giant skeleton, Toms River, May 2023

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The new Starbucks, Hooper Avenue in Toms River, May 2023

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Jon Bon Jovi rest stop on the Garden State Parkway, 2023

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Accident on Route 37, 2023

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 Route 37 heading east, near Lakehurst Rd and Oak Ridge parkway.

Tuckerton, summer 2023

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Guy probably on his way to Dunkin', Route 37 in Toms River 2023

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Seen driving in Toms River

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 No idea what this is.

Man who wants to defund the FBI, Seaside Heights, August 2023

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Seaside Heights, 2023

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Big Dog's Cafe, Toms River 2023

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 On the site of the old Joe-Joe's Italian Hot Dogs, route 37

The apartments on 'Hog Dog Heaven', behind the former Joe-Joe's Italian Hot Dogs, Route 37 in Toms River

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Kids playing Pokemon Go by the Ocean County Library, Toms River 2023

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John Whitley (Jhonny Keyz) headstone in Pleasant Mills Cemetery

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Peterson's Sunset Cabin, Lakewood

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early telephone ad

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Citta's restaurants in Ocean County

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Star Diner in Toms River

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 Ladies invited!

Sylvester McKelvey's 63rd anniversary , 1901

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 New Jersey Courier 9 May 1901

Independence Day in Manchester, 1873

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 New Jersey Courier 10 Jul 1873

Summer work for girls, 1915

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 Lakewood Citizen 2 Jul 1915

Arthur Clute, Professor of Music 1887

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Pettis Clock Shop, Toms River 2011

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York-Wilson wedding, 1968

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 Jackson News 19 Dec 1968     

John J. Smith's body found, Lakehurst, 1968

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  Jackson News 19 Dec 1968     

Otto Hauser hurt n crash, 1954

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 Asbury Park Press 26 Aug 1954

Trilco terminal ad from 1960

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Buckwald's cocktail lounge in Lakewood, 1969

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Frank R. Smith sentenced on larceny charges, 1942

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 Asbury Park Press 5 Oct 1942

Fire at Peterson's Sunset Cabin, 1951

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Asbury Park Press 14 Jun 1951

Eda and Laurn Stevens disappear, 1969

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 Asbury Park Press 26 Jun 1969

Prowler Punches Lakewood Man, 1955

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 Asbury Park Press 3 Jan 1955

Howard J. Sidney murders his wife, 1955

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 Asbury Park Press 3 Jan 1955