On This Day: January 18 — Century Dispatch

How a Texas Boom Town Shipped Palms to Florida & Settled Million-Dollar Claims (1927)

Brownsville herald (Brownsville, Tex.)

1926: The Italian who crossed an ocean for a poster girl (and got arrested) 💔

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

The Great Peawall Mystery: When 'Beer' Made Witnesses Forget Everything in 1906 Nebraska

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

Spain's Colonial Gamble Fails: Meet General Polavieja, the Brutal Replacement Nobody Wanted

Waterbury Democrat (Waterbury, Conn.)

January 1886: Cleveland's Patronage War, a Chinese Minister's English Fails, and Why Good Women Refused Bad Husbands

Savannah morning news (Savannah)

A Jilted Fiancée Arrives at the Manor—But Where's the Groom? (Oxford Democrat, 1876)

Oxford Democrat (Paris, Me.)

Six Months After Appomattox: Congress & Johnson Face Off Over the South's Future—And Grant Steals the Show at the Opera

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

January 18, 1865: Fort Fisher Falls! The Confederacy's Last Port Sealed

Cleveland morning leader (Cleveland [Ohio])

Civil War Worcester: A City Votes on Water While Soldiers Fight Barefoot in the Snow

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

7,000 Rebels Trapped: Union's First Flawless Victory—No Escape, Total Surrender

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

When a Civil War General Overhears Gossip: The Scandal That Wasn't (Worcester, 1862)

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Maryland Lawyers Debate Secession in January 1861: The Moment Before the Civil War

Montgomery County sentinel (Rockville, Md.)

When New Orleans Ruled America: A Port City's Glory Before the Storm (1856)

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

A Nation in Motion: Inside the Herald's 1846 Transportation Revolution

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

A Capital in Transition: Military Buildup, Steamboat Revolution & the Slave Trade Booming in 1836 Washington

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