On This Day: January 5 — Century Dispatch

Risberg vanishes before scandal hearing, China erupts, 78-year-old pharmacy changes hands (Jan. 5, 1927)

New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)

The day America quietly joined the League (and Scotland Yard's top spy got caught on a park bench)

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

1906: When Nebraska farm boys fled to business school and horseshoes went high-tech

The Nebraska advertiser (Nemaha City, Neb.)

Kaiser's Telegram Ignites Britain: "We'll Fight Them Single-Handed," Angry Englishmen Say

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

Inside Cleveland's Scramble to Reform Government (and Woodward Lothrop's Curtain Fire Sale)

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

When Department Stores Fought Counterfeits & Gas Pipes Nearly Blew Up Phineas Phiggins (1876)

The daily gazette (Wilmington, Del.)

Four Fires, an Emperor's Pleas, and the Woman Emigrant Scheme: January 5, 1866

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

🔒 Escaped from hell: A Union officer's 15-month Confederate prison nightmare (and the enslaved families who saved him)

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

Worcester's War Debt Explodes: How One City Struggled to Fill Its Army Quota in 1864

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Escape, Hire, and Survive: Life in Wartime Memphis, January 1862

Memphis daily appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)

Four Weeks Before Secession: What New York Readers Were Arguing About on January 5, 1861

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

The Ghost of Fort Sumter: How the U.S. Army Provisioned Its Future Enemy (1856)

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

A Sheriff Hangs His Own Son: The Tragedy That Killed Him on the Spot (Baltimore, 1846)

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

Jackson Warns Congress: America's Real Enemy Is Within (1836)

The Arkansas gazette (Arkansas Post, Ark. Ter.)