On This Day: January 23 — Century Dispatch

Ten Athletes Wiped Out in Train Crash—And What Mussolini Just Predicted About Future Wars

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

1926: Mother Kills Son in Maine Tragedy, While Senate Fights Block World Court

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

💥 Fog, Fallen Wires, and Fatal Commute: When Streetcars Collided in 1906

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

Nebraska's Frontier Burns: When Insurance Companies Fled and Cattle Rustlers Waited for Trial (1896)

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

A Louisiana Town's Government (and Where Its Dentures Were Made): Inside the Lake Charles Commercial, 1886

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

A Railroad Magnate's Wife, a British Officer, and Two Children: The Elopement That Shocked New York

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

The South's Political Nightmare: Congress Just Invented a Vote-Based Amendment (Jan. 23, 1866)

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

January 1863: While Delaware's Merchants Sold Nails, a Poet Prayed for Soldiers' Souls

Delaware gazette (Delaware, Ohio)

When Evansville Sold Swords & Wine: Life in a Civil War River Town (Jan. 1862)

The Evansville daily journal (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.])

Nashville's Last Ordinary Day: What a 1861 Newspaper Reveals About the Brink of War

Daily Nashville patriot (Nashville, Tenn.)

When New Orleans ruled American commerce: A city's last prosperous breath before the storm

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

1846: When Washington dreamed of a railroad to the Pacific—and how close they came

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

The Slave Trader's Ad Next to the Book Reviews: A Troubling Day in 1836 Washington

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