Century Dispatch
January 24
13 years of headlines
1927
Con Artist With 5 Aliases Caught in Connecticut; 14-Year-Old Confesses to Murder
New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)
1926
When Chicago Communists threw a massive Lenin party (and other 1926 surprises)
The daily worker (Chicago, Ill.;New York, N.Y.)
1906
1906: Anarchist Plot Targets Governor, Plus TR's Foreign Policy Sparks Senate Fireworks
Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)
1896
A Frontier Going Mad for Gold, Lumber & Settlers: The Pacific Northwest's 1896 Gold Rush (Minus the Gold)
The Oregon mist (St. Helens, Columbia County, Or.)
1886
Germany Secretly Abandons Gold Standard (And London Newspapers Lied About It)
The sun (New York [N.Y.])
1876
1876 Wilmington: When Tea Merchants Waged Price Wars and Dance Halls Taught the 'Glide Waltz'
The daily gazette (Wilmington, Del.)
1866
Inside Johnson's Secret Meeting on Black Suffrage (Jan. 24, 1866)
Baltimore daily commercial (Baltimore, Md.)
1864
Starving for Victory: How Whiskey Profiteers Broke the Confederacy (Jan. 1864)
Memphis daily appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)
1863
1863: The Civil War Turns—Emancipation Divides the Union, and Soldiers Are Furious About It
Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])
1862
She Married for Love, He Married for Duty: A Frontier Love Story from 1862
The weekly pioneer and Democrat (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory)
1861
Wall Street Panics as Union Crumbles: What New York's Markets Reveal About America in Crisis (Jan. 1861)
The sun (New York [N.Y.])
1856
State-Sanctioned Gambling & Ghost Ships: What Washington's 1856 Front Page Reveals About America on the Edge
The daily union (Washington [D.C.])
1846
"Oregon Murdered": How a Frontier Newspaper Raged Against Manifest Destiny's Betrayal (Jan. 1846)
Arkansas intelligencer (Van Buren, Ark.)

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