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Items up on eBay this week! Click on each link for the eBay page! More items always going up. Stay updated about new items on Facebook . Atlas Cut Upholsterers Tacks Starting Bid: $3.00 Vintage, 1940 John Halifax Gentleman by Miss Mulock Starting Bid: $8.99 1897 Antique Novel Canadian Nickel Collection: 1922 to Date Starting Bid: $30.00 All but two nickels!   Vintage Bokar Coffee Tin Starting Bid: $10.00 A&P Coffee Services Vintage Paramount Popcorn Style Cottage Cheese Tin Starting Bid: $15.00 Manufactured in PA! Vintage Ex-Lax Chocolate Laxatives Tin Starting Bid: $7.00 Tin Collectors Delight Vintage Many Mansion Postcard Starting Bid: $4.00 Postmarked 1938 Vintage Persian Lamb Muff Set Starting Bid: $25.00 Real Persian Lamb! 1954 Canadian Dollar Bill Starting Bid: $7.00 In protective plastic 1958 Life Magazine Starting Bid: $10.00 July 21

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The Return of the Shad – A Lambertville, NJ Tradition Written By NJ Historian Each year like clockwork, the shad return to the Delaware River to spawn. It is an ancient cycle first observed by the Lenni Lenape and has continued ever since. Today, in Lambertville, New Jersey the townspeople commemorate the arrival of the shad the last weekend in April with an annual Shad Festival. However, despite settlement in Lambertville dating to the 1750s, the festival’s first year was not until 1981. At the Shad Festival Lambertville is a town built around the Delaware River and the Delaware and Raritan Canal. During the eighteenth century, the city was named after various operators of ferries across the river to Pennsylvania, ultimately becoming known as Coryell's Ferry, after Emanuel Coryell who owned the ferry. The city became known as Lambertville in 1814 when the post office was established, in honor of John Lambert, a local resident, who had served as United States Senator and

Items up on eBay this week! Click on each link for the eBay page! More items always going up. Stay updated about new items on Facebook . Atlas Cut Upholsterers Tacks Starting Bid: $3.00 Vintage, 1940 John Halifax Gentleman by Miss Mulock Starting Bid: $8.99 1897 Antique Novel Canadian Nickel Collection: 1922 to Date Starting Bid: $30.00 All but two nickels!   Vintage Bokar Coffee Tin Starting Bid: $10.00 A&P Coffee Services Vintage Paramount Popcorn Style Cottage Cheese Tin Starting Bid: $15.00 Manufactured in PA! Vintage Ex-Lax Chocolate Laxatives Tin Starting Bid: $7.00 Tin Collectors Delight Vintage Many Mansion Postcard Starting Bid: $4.00 Postmarked 1938 Vintage Persian Lamb Muff Set Starting Bid: $25.00 Real Persian Lamb! 1954 Canadian Dollar Bill Starting Bid: $7.00 In protective plastic 1958 Life Magazine Starting Bid: $10.00 July 21

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Weekend Historical Happenings: 5/5/12 - 5/6/12 Here are a few of the best historical events happening this weekend. Hope to see you there! Weekend in Old Monmouth Saturday, May 5, 2012 and Sunday, May 6, 2012 Saturday, May 5 from 10 AM-5 PM and Sunday, May 6, 12-5 PM. Forty sites of every description will be open to the public free that weekend. A tour booklet and map will be available at each site and can be previewed on the Monmouth County Historical Commission . Planning the tour will help the visitor see the most for his time and per his preferences. The purpose for the coordinated open hours is to stimulate visitation by making available a lot of history in a single two-day period. Since the 40-site itinerary cannot be seen in one weekend, choosing one's preferences will help make the tour more enjoyable and leave other possibilities available for another year. The simplest division, geographical, has been outlined in advance as the tour is divided geographically in

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