History of Perth Amboy 1664-1920 Part 1

History of Middlesex County

New Jersey

1664-1920

Under the Associate Editorship 

of

John P. Wall 

and

Harold G. Pickersgill 

Assisted by an Able Corps of

Local Historians

Volume II

1921

Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc.

New York and Chicago 

 

 

To be continued........

William C. Wilson -Perth Amboy Mayor 1921-26

This article about William C. Wilson

Mayor of Perth Amboy

1921-26

is from the book

History of Middlesex County

New Jersey

1664-1920

Under the Associate Editorship 

of

John P. Wall 

and

Harold G. Pickersgill 

Assisted by an Able Corps of

Local Historians

Volume II

1921

Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc. 

New York and Chicago

Mayor of Perth Amboy

1921-26 

Died January 14, 1951

Perth Amboy Grocery Store 1910

Thanks to Ginny Moravek for sharing 

an article from the News Tribune and photo 

about her Grandmother's store. 

The store was located on the corner 

of Alpine and Francis Streets.

The article is dated December 1, 1977

Original photo used in the newspaper article

Building as it looks today.

Perth Amboy Shield

The Shield 

Perth Amboy High School Newspaper 

Circa 1920

Another Perth Amboy High School Newspaper 

was called the Periscope. 

See a copy of the June 1964

Periscope June 1964

 Perth Amboy High School circa 1930's

 Picture is  from the 1985 Perth Amboy Calendar 

produced by W.A.T.E.R.

Perth Amboy Newspapers

Perth Amboy Newspapers

This list was obtained at 

Chronicling America

• Middlesex Megyei Magyar hírlap = Middlesex County Hungarian news. (Perth Amboy, N.J. ;) 19??-1952
  Languages: English, Hungarian
• Polak Amerykanski = The Polish American. (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 19??-????
  Languages: Polish
• Sokol times. (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1968-????
  Languages: English, Slovak
• Americké listy. (New York, N.Y.) 1962-1989
  Languages: Czech, English
• The Middlesex County Democrat. (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1868-1907
• New Yorský deník. (New York, N.Y.) 1962-19??
• New-Jersey gazette, and Perth-Amboy commercial advertiser. (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1819-182?
• The Perth Amboy gazette. (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1875-1879
• Perth Amboyi Magyar szó = Perth Amboy Hungarian press. (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1921-1921
  Languages: Hungarian
• Magyar szó = Hungarian press. (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1921-????
  Languages: Hungarian
• Hiradó = Perth Amboy herald. (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1921-1970
  Languages: English, Hungarian
• The New Jersey era. (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1866-1868
• The Perth Amboy herald. (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1860-????
• Perth Amboy observer and the Perth Amboy record. (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1930-1931
• Perth Amboy evening news. (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959 

• The Perth Amboy chronicle. (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1890-1913 

• Perth Amboy citizen. (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1901-1905
• The Perth Amboy journal. (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1858-1859
• The Perth Amboy journal and Middlesex County advertiser. (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1859-????
• The Middlesex County herald. (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1889-1907
• The Jersey mosquito. (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1919-1922 

• Middlesex Republican. (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1934-1934
• The Labor news weekly. (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1917-????
• The messenger. (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1906-1909
• The mosquito. (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1898-1919 

• The mosquito. (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1922-1931 

• Vostok = The East. (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1920-19??
  Languages: English, Ukrainian
• The Perth Amboy republican. (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1887-1903
• The weekly guardian. (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1873-1875
• Perth Amboy mosquito. (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1944-19??
• Perth Amboy times. (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1858-1859
• Perth Amboy Democrat. (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1859-1860
• Americké listy (New York) 1962-1989
  Languages: Czech, English
• New-Yorské listy. (New York, N.Y.) 1874-????
  Languages: Czech, English 

 Two papers from Perth Amboy that weren't on the list 

Perth Amboy Record 

1924

The Loyal American 

1896

                                  There are probably a few others that were published in Perth Amboy.  

Do You Remember - King Cut Rate

King Cut Rate was a 

General Merchandise Store 

located at 274 Smith St. 

Right near the Farmer's Market 

It opened sometime between 1950/51

It closed between 1956 and 1964. 

Toy Catalog from 1954-1955 

Mattel Toys and Musical Instruments 

Dolls

 Creative Activities 

Toy Pistols 

Child size appliances

 Record Players

 Sports Equipment

Playing Mommy

Board Games 

Trucks

Gone but not forgotten