On This Day: January 2 — Century Dispatch

The Black Sox Scandal Just Got Worse—Risberg Reveals *Another* Fixed Series (1917)

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

The $70,000 Bribe & The General Who Died for a Job—January 2, 1926

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

1906: Seven mail deliveries trapped by Alaskan ice, plus the 'famous dogomobile'

The Nome tri-weekly nugget (Nome, Alaska)

Cleveland Shook 240 Hands in 8 Minutes—And One Treasury Official's Guilty Conscience

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

How Fire Departments Coordinated the Centennial Midnight: Telegraph Bells, Church Hymns & Prison Performances in 1876

The sun (New York [N.Y.])

1866: Garrison Hangs Up His Pen as the South Begins Its Painful Reconstruction

Baltimore daily commercial (Baltimore, Md.)

January 2, 1865: Hood's Army Flees Alabama as Union Closes In

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

A General's Confession: What Burnside Told Congress About the Fredericksburg Disaster

The weekly pioneer and Democrat (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory)

Secret Society vs. Lincoln: The Explosive Document Kansas Was Reading on New Year's Day 1862

White Cloud Kansas chief (White Cloud, Kan.)

The Southern Senator Who Warned Secession Was Treason—Two Weeks Before the Civil War Began

Wabash express (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.)

Your Ticket to Riches: How 1856 Americans Gambled Their Way to Dreams (With State Approval)

The daily union (Washington [D.C.])

How a Michigan Mesmerist Cured Rheumatism (and Caught a Fugitive) — Plus: The Bible Society's Stunning Numbers

American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper (Baltimore, Md.)