On This Day: January 25 — Century Dispatch

Why Coolidge Said 'No' to China—And Why He'd Be Proven Wrong in 24 Months

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

When a chiropractor confessed to dismembering a milliner (and other tales from 1926)

New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)

When Nebraska Fined Deer Hunters $100 and Alice Roosevelt Started a Kimono Craze

The Loup City northwestern (Loup City, Neb.)

Lee's Own Words on Virginia (and Why a Publishing Millionaire Died in a Poorhouse)

Savannah morning news (Savannah)

1876: When Congress Fired a One-Handed Civil War Vet, and Grandpa's Brutal Sunday Lessons

Oxford Democrat (Paris, Me.)

Congress Decides Freedom's Fate: The Freedmen's Bureau Fight Begins, 1866

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

The theater ads that survived Lincoln's assassination—Washington, 1865

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

2,000 Dead in Chile, Blocked From Rescue: The Eyewitness Letter That Shattered a Nation's Faith

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

FORT HINDMAN FALLS: Union Army-Navy Triumph Opens Path to Reclaim the Mississippi

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

A Gold Rush Town Debates Slavery: Auburn's Brutal Choice, January 1862

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

A Vain Choir Tenor, a Dairy Girl's Right Hook, and the Day a Parish Fell Apart Over Singing

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Shipping Lines to the Future: Inside Antebellum New Orleans' $1 Billion Maritime Empire (Five Years Before It All Burns)

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

How a Whisper Campaign Destroyed a Jewish Editor's Career in 1846 New York

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

How Washington Bought Uniforms, Built Canals, and Bought People: The Contradictions of 1836

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