William Gains drunk and disorderly in Tuckerton, 1917
Tuckerton Beacon 16 Aug 1917
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Minstrel Show at Ocean Gate, 1920
New Jersey Courier 27 Aug 1920 Irene Guest did take part in the Olympics....you can read about her at her Wiki page here: Irene Guest on Wikipedia She died in Ocean Gate in 1970.
Shark caught near Mt Pleasant, described in an incredibly racist story from 1859
Ocean Emblem 31 Aug 1859
neat young white girls wanted
saw this ad in the New Jersey Courier of 12 Jul 1918: "WANTED - Neat young white girls for waitresses. Apply at Hotel Albion, 107 Second Ave, Asbury Park, NJ"
Man shot in watermelon patch, 1860
New Jersey Mirror 6 Sep 1860 A Woodbury correspondent of the True Democrat, under date of August 29th, furnishes the following item of interest: A colored man was shot at Eagle Point farm, last night, in the melon patch of Mr. J. J. Richards, by one of his sons. He had been at the house to receive some wages, and had been given a melon. In going home, he passed through the melon-patch, and was shot, the poor fellow says, while getting over the fence. The whole load entered the small of his back, and made a tremendous hole.--He laid in the field all night, until this morning, when his groans attracted the attention of some of the family. He was brought to Woodbury and left in the jail. The doctor in attendance at once pronounced that he could not live but a short time, and he died in a couple of hours after. An inquest will be held this afternoon. A warrant is out for the arrest of young Richards. It is a bad case--the negro being an old thief, and having been convicted several times.
JUNIOR KKK
from the New Jersey Courier 19 Oct 1923 JUNIOR K.K.K NOW Branches of Junior Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, which recently had its inception in Indiana, are being organized in Monmouth and Ocean Counties. The work has been in progress in this section about three weeks and already it is said about 500 youths have been enrolled. Boys between the ages of 12 to 18, sons of the members of the K.K.K. or sons of the Royal Riders of the Red Robe are eligible to membership, the latter, of course, if they have been born in this country. The boys have a regalia said to be somewhat like that of the K.K.K.
NAKED NEGRO, TERRORIZED WOMAN, GIVEN THIRTY DAYS
From New Jersey Courier 19 Oct 1923 Richard Pryor, colored, of Bay Head, ought to thank his lucky stars that he was in Ocean County instead of some southern state when on Wednesday of this week he was sentenced by Judge Newman to thirty days in the county jail, the term to begin at the time of his arrest. Pryor's wife worked for Lawrence Boggs, of Newark, who has a summer home at Bay Head. Mrs. Boggs was awakened by a noise one night recently to find a naked negro by her bedside. She screamed, and her husband ran in and grappled him. The negro escaped at the time but it was afterward found to have been Pryor. He was tried and convicted, his plea was that he broke into the house to find his wife. The wife, at the trial, said that earlier in the night he had been drunk and abusive and she had to sneak away from him.
Racism in 1879
This one-liner from the New Jersey Courier of 8 May 1879 made me do a double take: We are informed that only two colored men have been sent to our county jail as tramps during the past five years. A pretty good record for the 'nigger'.