On This Day: January 13 — Century Dispatch

Charlie Chaplin's $250/Week Secret & Connecticut's Political Shocker (Jan. 13, 1927)

New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)

1926: Alabama Gets Ready for America's Great Road Trip (Plus $10M Rubber Wars)

The Montgomery advertiser (Montgomery, Ala.)

1906: When a University President Became a Kingmaker (Plus: The Billion-Ton Secret)

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

Harvard's President Furious Over Suffrage Hijack + 50,000 Dead in Armenia: Jan. 13, 1896

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

When Dress Goods Were Scandalous (And a Patent War Made Government Stumble)

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

1876: Belfast Farmers Discover Why Their Cows Are Draining the Soil—And How to Fix It

The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.)

When California Papers Defended the South (and cited the Jamaica Massacre to argue against Black freedom)

The Placer herald (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.)

Jan 1865: While Civil War raged, Maine paper ran juicy tales of Washington society drama

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

How the USDA Failed Worcester's Gardeners in 1863—And What They Did About It

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Dying Colonel's Last Order + Why Lincoln's Generals Were Failing: Jan. 1863

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Watch the USS Pensacola Run Past Rebel Guns—And Why Terrified Confederates Couldn't Hit a Cathedral

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

The Last Normal Day: How Nashville's Merchants Advertised While the Union Collapsed (Jan. 1861)

Nashville union and American (Nashville, Tenn.)

Army Feeding a Nation: How the U.S. Military Supplied 40+ Forts from Boston to California in 1856

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

1846: A Visionary's Blueprint for Manifest Destiny—The Transcontinental Railroad Dream That Would Take 23 Years

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

When Cincinnati Raced to Become America's Second City: A 1836 Real Estate Boom That Changed Everything

The Daily Cincinnati Republican, and commercial register (Cincinnati, Ohio)