Century Dispatch
April 19
15 years of headlines
1927
Gasoline Stations Selling Bootleg Alcohol & Other 1927 Chaos: Inside the New Britain Herald's April Front Page
New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)
1926
1926: Impeachment Drama, Wedding Riots, and the D.A.R. Fights for Prohibition
The Washington daily news (Washington, D.C.)
1906
1906: When Germany Accidentally Tried to Free Poland (And Other Diplomatic Disasters)
Zgoda : Wydanie dla mężczyzn (Chicago, Ill.)
1896
100 Years Ago: Europe Redraws Itself, Britain Admits Military Weakness, and a Fat Man Smuggles Oil Past Customs
The sun (New York [N.Y.])
1886
A Department Store's Last Gasp: Inside J.N. Adam & Co.'s 1886 Closing Sale
Morning journal and courier (New Haven [Conn.])
1876
Senator Bayard Under Fire: Delaware's Most Prominent Politician Defends His Honor (1876)
The daily gazette (Wilmington, Del.)
1866
Chaos at Sea, Chaos in Congress: The Day America Nearly Split Apart (Again)
Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)
1865
April 19, 1865: The Conspiracy Widens—Grant & Butler Were Next to Die
Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)
1864
A Soldier's Conversion & a Swamp Fugitive's Freedom: Vermont's War Stories from April 1864
Green-Mountain freeman (Montpelier, Vt.)
1863
Haunted Houses & Soldier Politics: What a 1863 NY Paper Reveals About Civil War America
Sunday dispatch (New York [N.Y.])
1862
What Killed More Women Than the Civil War? A Fashion Exposé from 1862 Minnesota
Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])
1861
War Just Began—But This Indiana Newspaper Has No Idea (April 19, 1861)
The Evansville daily journal (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.])
1856
1856: A Southern Planter's Desperate Fire Sale—150 Enslaved People, Racehorses, and the Crumbling Cotton Empire
The daily union (Washington [D.C.])
1846
800 Passengers Escape as Prestigious Steamship Oregon Wrecks in Hell Gate—Just Plain Luck Saved Them
The New York herald (New York [N.Y.])
1836
A Frontier Senator Claims Jackson's Hired Killers Are After Him—And Vermont Debates Whether Cider is Evil
Rutland herald (Rutland, Vt.)

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