On This Day: January 26 — Century Dispatch

A 1,200-Pound Hog, a Brutal Car Crash, and Delaware's Fight to Fund Fire Companies

Smyrna times (Smyrna, Del.)

1926: Coast Guard Takes Bribes in Massive Rum Ring & Bootleggers Buy Insurance Policies

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

1906: When the postmaster sold books, horseshoes were high-tech, and mail carriers bled for their routes

The Nebraska advertiser (Nemaha City, Neb.)

How a Ex-Confederate Officer Landed a Diplomatic Post in Korea—And Why It Mattered in 1886

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

1876: Inside a Maine Newspaper Where Fish Markets Competed & Patent Medicine Ruled

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

Murder, Intrigue & Grant's Secret Wedding Speech: A Nation Still Bleeding (Jan. 26, 1866)

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

1865: Romance novels, insurance ads, and Fast Day rebels in wartime Connecticut

The Willimantic journal (Willimantic, Conn.)

When a Union General Trolled a Confederate with 20 Copies of Lincoln's Proclamation (Jan. 1864)

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

The 109th Illinois Caught Red-Handed: How Grant Discovered a Regiment of Traitors in His Own Army

Chicago daily tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

Salt Wars & Soldier's Bounties: What New York's War-Time Advice Column Reveals (Jan. 1862)

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

Inside Louisiana's Secession Convention: When 128 Delegates Met to Leave the Union

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

When Delaware Lotteries Were Legal, Sperm Oil Lit America's Lighthouses, and a Tailor Dressed the Navy

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

When Dickens Became a Newspaper Editor—And Why Britain's Government Nearly Collapsed

New-York daily tribune (New-York [N.Y.])

Inside a Bubble About to Burst: The Washington Intelligencer's Last Calm Before the Panic of 1837

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