On This Day: January 8 — Century Dispatch

When a Boxer's Bruises Got Lost in the Point System: Tampa, 1927

La gaceta (Tampa, Fla.)

1926: When wedding mix-ups, eyeglass pins, and wheat mills made front-page news

Montgomery County sentinel (Rockville, Md.)

🚢 Teddy Roosevelt Goes Nuclear on Panama Canal Critics (Plus: Kansas Freezes Solid)

The Topeka state journal (Topeka, Kansas)

A Father's Murder, a Starving Prisoner, and the Maine Winter That Wouldn't End (1896)

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

A Shillelagh for Congress & the Great Linen Wars: Inside D.C.'s Bureaucratic Chaos, 1886

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

Apache Chief Shot Dead at Arizona Agency: The Domestic Dispute That Turned Deadly in 1876

Arizona citizen (Tucson, Pima County, A.T. [i.e. Ariz.])

The Treasury's Secret Plan to Fix America's Inflation Crisis—Plus a Race Riot in Charleston

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

1865: Sherman Rules Savannah as Civil War Nears Its End

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

War, Railroads & Dental Extractions: What Indianapolis Read on the Day the Civil War Changed

Daily State sentinel (Indianapolis, Ind.)

Pope Was America's Great Hope (For 6 Months): A General's Premature Celebration from 1862

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

The Letter That Almost Stopped a War: Buchanan's Doomed Negotiation with South Carolina (Jan. 8, 1861)

The daily exchange (Baltimore, Md.)

The Moment Before the Blockade: Inside New Orleans' Last Golden Day of Global Trade (1856)

New Orleans daily crescent ([New Orleans, La.])

Congress Fights Over Washington's Monument: Should the Government Let Citizens Build It?

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

Jackson Warns Congress: Foreign Powers Test American Patience (1836)

The Arkansas advocate (Little Rock, A.T. [Ark.])