There was a disastrous fire in Toronto. A major billiards contest was canceled. A schooner was overdue. HMS Titanic went down, but the cousin of Atlantic City's clerk was among the rescued. Circulation was 8,735.
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, but Atlantic City remains calm.
Circulation was 19,327. President Kennedy is shot, and members of an Atlantic County civic club weep at the news. There was Miss America, the 1962 storm, casino gambling, Mike Tyson, Steel Pier, bungee jumping, tourism, the Atlantic City Expressway, Wildwood Boardwalk fires, Republican political juggernauts and countless other stories. But you wouldn't have read about them in The Press if it hadn't been for Walter Edge. Edge, twice governor of New Jersey and former U.S. senator and ambassador to France, founded the paper in 1895.