On This Day: January 6 — Century Dispatch

A Governor's Secret: Did Coolidge Really Save These Two Officials' Jobs?

Springfield weekly Republican (Springfield, Mass.)

1926: Bus Wars, Moonshine Justice & A Cow Named Peggy's Record-Breaking Milk

Grand Rapids herald-review (Grand Rapids, Itasca County, Minn)

1906: Gold Rush Goes Bust as 500 Miners Flee Alaska's Frozen Hell

The Nome tri-weekly nugget (Nome, Alaska)

Steamship Race, Seized Shoes & Patent Medicine: Hawaii's Brief Moment Before Annexation (Jan 6, 1896)

The Hawaiian star (Honolulu [Oahu])

Crushed by Arctic Ice: A Maine Whaler's 7-Month Ordeal in 1886

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

How a Farmer Discovered Why Frost Kills Some Crops But Not Others—And Why You Should Never Feed Hens Snow

The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.)

Congress Fights Over Freedmen While Landlords Kill Tenants & Fenians Stockpile Weapons (Jan 6, 1866)

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

1865: The $5,000 Ram, a Hatchet-Wielding Wife, and 20,000 Cannonballs That Missed

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Cotton Is No Longer King: How the Civil War Freed Britain from Slavery's Grip

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

A Maryland Hospital Gazette From Deep in the War: Poetry, Payola, and the Turning Tide

Hammond gazette (Point Lookout, Md.)

1862: When NYC Was Recruiting Soldiers While Ships Still Sailed to Liverpool

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

Cotton, Elopements & Secession: Memphis on the Brink (Jan. 6, 1861)

Memphis daily appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)

Benjamin Franklin's Radical 1753 Letter on Faith (Republished 1856): Why Good Deeds Beat Prayers

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

A Supreme Court Battle Over Land, a Texas Governor's Landslide, and Shipwrecks on the St. Lawrence (January 6, 1846)

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

Inside Early Washington: Where Slave Traders and Dancemasters Advertised Side by Side (Jan. 1836)

Daily national intelligencer (Washington City [D.C.])