New York Times Historic (starts in 1851) is now available for your use, from home. Try, for example, these searches
McClellan between Sept 1877 and Jan 1878
(Woodrow Wilson) on Nov 6, 1912
Lakehurst in May 1937
Use parentheses to (phrase words together), connect words with AND. Try
Edison AND inventor for period
10/1/1931 to 10/31/1931(The whole world held it's breath!) A lot of NJ news and people are in the Times "back in the day". Doing a history paper for school? This is your primary source material. Try, for example
Maine AND explosion, February 1898
railroad on May 11, 1869
Banting in 1922
Custer, June-July 1876 (took two weeks for the news to come east)
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