On This Day: January 28 — Century Dispatch

1927: Congress Battles Over Tax Cuts While America Freezes—Plus the 'Peaches' Browning Scandal Takes a Vicious Turn

The Montgomery advertiser (Montgomery, Ala.)

1926: Stranded train, federal hearing, and a family radio show from Kansas City

The Saratoga sun (Saratoga, Carbon County, Wyo.)

When Washington Roasted Teddy Roosevelt (And a Steamship Captain Got 10 Years)

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

Inside the President's Inner Circle: Spoils, Silk, and $400,000 Bonds in 1886 Washington

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

January 28, 1876: When Tea Importers Gave Away Free Glassware & Sheriffs Auctioned Farms by the Acre

The daily gazette (Wilmington, Del.)

Nashville, January 1866: A City Rebuilding (and Selling Andrew Johnson's Biography)

The Nashville daily union (Nashville, Tenn.)

The 1865 Catfish Scheme: When Bachelors Dressed as Peddlers to Spy on Potential Wives

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

Inside a Civil War–Era Post Office: How the North Planned Mail Routes Through Future Battlefields

Civilian & telegraph (Cumberland, Md.)

Iron-Clads Arrive: Union General Hunter Returns to Launch Aggressive Campaign in the Deep South

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

Sleeping Cars & Oysters: How Iowa Thrived While America Fought (1862)

The daily Gate City (Keokuk, Iowa)

Inside Fort Sumter as Secession Accelerates: A Letter from a Soldier Watching Chaos Unfold

Chicago daily tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

Inside the Cotton Port: What a 1856 New Orleans Shipping Day Really Looked Like

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

Mexico City Falls to a General—And America Holds Its Breath Before War

American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper (Baltimore, Md.)

Washington's Hidden Slave Market: What One Newspaper Ad from 1836 Reveals About America

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