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1927
Cold Snap, Rescue at Sea & the President's Secret Exit: Feb. 8, 1927
The Indianapolis times (Indianapolis [Ind.])
1926
Army Officers Secretly Plot Against Coolidge While America's Most Famous Ex-Couple Reconciles at Sea
The Cordele dispatch and daily sentinel (Cordele, Georgia)
1906
🌙 Teachers Brawl Shuts Down School + Tonight's Eclipse (Feb 8, 1906)
The frontier (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.)
1896
February 1896: Morgan Loses His Grip, America Embraces the Nicaragua Dream, and "Bat" Shea Faces the Chair
Waterbury Democrat (Waterbury, Conn.)
1886
Howling Defiance at the Governor: How Seattle's Mob Expelled 400 Chinese in a Single Day
Savannah morning news (Savannah)
1876
A Mother's Brutal Lesson: Why This 1876 Wife's Marriage Nearly Failed—Over Coffee
Oxford Democrat (Paris, Me.)
1866
One Year After Lincoln: How Baltimore Wrestled with Reconstruction (Feb. 8, 1866)
Baltimore daily commercial (Baltimore, Md.)
1864
1,000 Head of Cattle Lost, Bridge Burned, Knoxville Threatened—East Tennessee in Chaos
New-York daily tribune (New-York [N.Y.])
1863
One skater broke through the ice, froze half to death, and New York's winter panic was *just getting started*
Sunday dispatch (New York [N.Y.])
1862
Helena, Arkansas, February 1862: Before the Gunboats Came—A Town Still Buying Pianos and Mending Stockings
Southern shield (Helena, Ark.)
1861
Nashville Boasts of Progress Days Before the Civil War—What They Didn't Know
Daily Nashville patriot (Nashville, Tenn.)
1856
1856: Inside the Bustling Port That Slavery Built—A Day in Booming New Orleans Before Everything Changed
New Orleans daily crescent ([New Orleans, La.])
1846
"Not One Cent for Tribute": How a Brave Doctor Exposed a $2,000 Shakedown at the Custom House
Sunday dispatch (New York [N.Y.])
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