Century Dispatch
March 16
14 years of headlines
1927
Delaware Judges Overturn Tax Board Firing—And It's the First Case of Its Kind
Smyrna times (Smyrna, Del.)
1926
When Newspapers Bragged About Font Changes & Vigilantes Settled School Disputes
Brownsville herald (Brownsville, Tex.)
1906
The Day Susan B. Anthony Died Dreaming of Oregon Votes (& 600 Killed in Philippines)
The Oregon mist (St. Helens, Columbia County, Or.)
1886
1886: Cleveland Shakes Up Washington—and a Retiring Civil War Legend Says Goodbye
The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)
1876
1876: How Maine Farmers Beat Bad Soil (and Why Romance Died on the Ocean)
The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.)
1866
Congress Fights Over Reconstruction While Baltimore Sells Champagne & Hair Dye (March 16, 1866)
Baltimore daily commercial (Baltimore, Md.)
1865
March 16, 1865: Sherman's army burns Columbia as the Confederacy crumbles from all sides
New-York daily tribune (New-York [N.Y.])
1864
200,000 More Men Needed: Lincoln's Third Draft & Congress's Gold Gamble (March 16, 1864)
New-York daily tribune (New-York [N.Y.])
1863
A 99-Year-Old Woman's Gift to Washington (And Her Message for 1863)
Canton weekly register (Canton, Ill.)
1862
New Madrid Falls: The Day a Confederate Doctor Died Between a General's Legs (Memphis, March 1862)
Memphis daily appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)
1861
Nashville, March 1861: One Last Day of Ordinary Business Before Everything Changed
Daily Nashville patriot (Nashville, Tenn.)
1856
Blood in the Coffee Fields: How the Panama Railroad Unleashed a Filibuster's Army in Central America (March 16, 1856)
The New York herald (New York [N.Y.])
1846
1846: A Fiery Alabama Congressman Exposes the Sectional Anger Brewing Over Federal Spending—13 Years Before the Civil...
The daily union (Washington [D.C.])
1836
A Frontier Doctor's Wild Money-Back Guarantee (and 14 Other Things Cincinnati Was Selling in 1836)
The Daily Cincinnati Republican, and commercial register (Cincinnati, Ohio)

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