On This Day: January 31 — Century Dispatch

A Connecticut Man Stays Behind in War-Torn China—While His State's Population Booms

New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)

When Jewish Students Built Barricades & Coal Miners Played Hardball

Yidishes ṭageblaṭṭ = The Jewish daily news (New York, N.Y.)

Russian Pacifists in Paradise: When Hawaii Was America's Strangest Territory

The Hawaiian star (Honolulu [Oahu])

A century ago, shrimps surprised Puget Sound (and Oregonians grew prize-winning onions in Philadelphia)

The Oregon mist (St. Helens, Columbia County, Or.)

Gladstone Returns to Power—But Only If He Bows to Irish Nationalists

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

A Wilmington Tea War, Foreclosures, and the Invention of Better Pain Relief (Jan. 31, 1876)

The daily gazette (Wilmington, Del.)

Reconstruction's Fever Dream: Congress Rewrites the Constitution as Philadelphia Burns (Jan. 31, 1866)

Baltimore daily commercial (Baltimore, Md.)

January 31, 1865: Steamboat explodes killing 105 as woman shoots Treasury clerk dead in Washington

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

Rebel Secrets Exposed: Captured Dispatches Reveal Confederate Army Starving, Lying About Losses, and Broke

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

Occupied New Orleans, January 1862: Banks Collapse, Life Goes On—and the Details Are Haunting

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

A Border Town's Last Moment of Peace: What Cumberland's Newspaper Looked Like 3 Weeks Before Fort Sumter

Civilian & telegraph (Cumberland, Md.)

1856: A Newspaper Declares War—And Congress Can't Even Elect a Speaker

Weekly Indiana State sentinel (Indianapolis [Ind.])

Florida's 1846 Election Chaos: How One Congressman Exposed the Cracks in Democracy

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