On This Day: January 30 — Century Dispatch

Coolidge's Secret Weapon Against War: Debt Reduction (and One Bizarre London Bank Heist)

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

Family Poisoning Mystery Baffles Cleveland Police While Spanish Pilot Attempts Daring Ocean Crossing

New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)

1906: When Danish Kings Needed Brass Bands and 480 People Claimed the Astor Fortune

The Topeka state journal (Topeka, Kansas)

Grant's Hidden Cuba Proclamation Revealed—Plus a Fiery Senator Threatens Revolution

Waterbury Democrat (Waterbury, Conn.)

Ice, Fire, and Drowning: How One Storm Devastated Maine—January 30, 1886

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

A Headless Mystery in New York: The Gruesome Discovery That Gripped 1876

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

Mississippi, January 1866: When Federal Power Met Southern Rage—and How Reconstruction Began to Fail

The daily clarion (Meridian, Miss.)

1865: Northern Refugee's Hair-Raising Escape from Confederate Charleston

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

Longstreet's Siege & the Collapsing Confederacy: Why January 1864 Changed Everything

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

Should Grief Be Fashionable? A Connecticut Town Debates Mourning in Wartime (1863)

The Willimantic journal (Willimantic, Conn.)

"Every Man Who Can Bear Arms": How the Desperate Confederacy Raced for Troops in January 1862

Arkansas true Democrat (Little Rock, Ark.)

Civil War Looming: How New York Sold Books About Secession While Drilling Militias (January 30, 1861)

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

1856: Inside the Booming Port That Slavery Built—Before Everything Changed

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

A Widow's Bible Settles a Revolutionary Murder (Baltimore, 1846)

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

Virginia's Booming Economy on the Rails—and Built on Enslaved Labor (Jan. 1836)

Richmond enquirer (Richmond, Va.)