Century Dispatch
January 4
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1927
Why Connecticut's Factories Stopped Carrying Cash (And It Wasn't About Money)
New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)
1926
1926: Mechanic Stages Daring Rescue of 16-Year-Old Bride from Her Own Minister Father
The Washington times (Washington [D.C.])
1906
1906: When a Nebraska newspaper employee survived a gruesome printing press accident that 'resembled a slaughter pen'
The frontier (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.)
1896
Why a 1896 Country Pastor Defended Government Intervention—and What It Reveals About the Populist Moment
The dawn (Ellensburg, Wash.)
1886
Inside a Forgotten Supreme Court Case That Shaped Military Justice—Plus the $1 Shirt That Had Victorians Obsessed
The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)
1876
She Rejected Him in the Maple Grove—But 1876 Maine Had One More Twist
Oxford Democrat (Paris, Me.)
1866
A Powder Mill Explosion & Silk Dreams: How Connecticut Built America's First War Machine
The Willimantic journal (Willimantic, Conn.)
1865
January 1865: Rebels raid Union lines while deserters flood the mountains
New-York daily tribune (New-York [N.Y.])
1864
Lincoln Danced While Sherman Marched: How the Union Started 1864 as a War Machine
New-York daily tribune (New-York [N.Y.])
1863
Lincoln Signs Away Virginia—and Wins a Bloody Battle in Tennessee (Jan. 4, 1863)
Sunday dispatch (New York [N.Y.])
1862
DESERTERS & DRILLS: New Orleans Mobilizes as the Civil War Tightens Its Grip (Jan. 1862)
New Orleans daily crescent ([New Orleans, La.])
1861
Three weeks after South Carolina seceded: A Maryland town's newspaper captures America's last normal moment
Montgomery County sentinel (Rockville, Md.)
1856
When New Orleans Ruled the World: One Day's Shipping News Shows the Hidden Architecture of Antebellum Power
New Orleans daily crescent ([New Orleans, La.])
1846
When a Ticket to Liverpool Cost More Than a House: Transportation Revolution in 1846
The New York herald (New York [N.Y.])
1836
A Capital City's Dark Business: Inside the January 1836 Slave Market (Advertised Openly)
Daily national intelligencer (Washington City [D.C.])

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