On This Day: January 11 — Century Dispatch

Railroad Opens the Valley + Woman Makes History in Texas Legislature

Brownsville herald (Brownsville, Tex.)

50 butchered in Mexican train massacre & the Osage 'king' indicted for insurance murder

Brownsville herald (Brownsville, Tex.)

When Nebraska Claimed the World's Richest Farmland (And Someone Nearly Burned Down a Butcher Shop)

The frontier (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.)

A Southern Editor's Fury: When Sugar Money Tempted Louisiana Planters to Betray Their Own Party (1896)

Lake Charles commercial (Lake Charles, Calcasieu Parish, La.)

Why Washington D.C. Had No Jobless in 1886 (And What General Crook Really Thought About Apache Scouts)

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

A Mystery Child, Lost Fortunes & Wax Flowers: Small-Town Maine's Heart Laid Bare (1876)

Oxford Democrat (Paris, Me.)

Five Months After Appomattox: Baltimore Navigates Love, Voting Rights & Ice in Japan

Baltimore daily commercial (Baltimore, Md.)

1865: Why Worcester cared more about Italian politics than Civil War news

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

A British Abolitionist Proves Slavery (Not Trade) Started the Civil War—With 40 Pages of Evidence

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

A Union Officer's Secret Letter Reveals the North Is Tearing Itself Apart (Jan. 1863)

The daily bulletin (Winchester, Tenn)

January 1862: The Union Holds Its Breath Before the Bloodiest Year Yet Begins

Springfield weekly Republican (Springfield, Mass.)

A Connecticut Town's Last Week of Peace: What Was for Sale in Willimantic When Fort Sumter Was Still Secure

The Willimantic journal (Willimantic, Conn.)

Fort Sumter's Last Routine Supply Order (Before Everything Changed)

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

Exposed: How Tyler's Own Men Got Drunk and Lied to the President (Jan. 11, 1846)

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

How Lynchburg Sold Teeth Whitener & Human Beings on the Same Page (1836)

Lynchburg Virginian (Lynchburg [Va.])