On This Day: January 3 — Century Dispatch

The Cement Train Arrived: How South Texas Boomed in 1927

Brownsville herald (Brownsville, Tex.)

1926: A Murderer's Widow Marries His Victim's Husband (Plus: Democrats Take City Hall)

South Bend news-times (South Bend, Ind.)

1906: When Maine's Fish & Game Association Had $6.47 Left and a Mandolin Club Crisis

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

Hacked to Death in His Bed—And the Boers Just Defeated the British in South Africa

Waterbury Democrat (Waterbury, Conn.)

Gladstone's Irish Gamble Could Blow Up Parliament—Plus: Pasteur's Rabies Cure Works on Americans

New-York tribune (New York [N.Y.])

America's Centennial Year Dawns in Maine: Watch How 1876 America Really Shopped (And What It Cost)

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

A Chilean naval victory thrills a war-weary world—plus planter corruption and the brutal cost of freedom

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

Maryland's Civil War Crossroads: When a Carrier Boy Pleaded for Peace (Jan. 1862)

Montgomery County sentinel (Rockville, Md.)

New York's Governor Warns of Rail Apocalypse for Canals—Just Months Before Civil War

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

When Republicans Called Each Other Traitors: Inside the Party's 1856 Civil War

Weekly Indiana State sentinel (Indianapolis [Ind.])

New Year 1846: A Washington Awash in European Silk, Cigars, and Pianos—Before Everything Changed

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