Century Dispatch
April 25
15 years of headlines
1927
Murder, Insurance, & a Pullman Ticket: The Trial That Captivated 1920s America Begins Today
New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)
1926
When Fortune Telling Cost $25 a Day (And Other Tales from 1926)
South Bend news-times (South Bend, Ind.)
1906
🇺🇸 When Teddy Roosevelt Buried a Hero: 'I Have Not Yet Begun to Fight!'
Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)
1896
Saloonkeepers Surrender: How New York's Liquor Wars Previewed Prohibition
Waterbury Democrat (Waterbury, Conn.)
1886
Gladstone's Confession, Pasteur's Cure & the Guns at Haymarket: April 25, 1886
The sun (New York [N.Y.])
1876
How a Victorian Wife's Smoking Scheme Backfired Spectacularly—and What It Reveals About 1876 Marriage
Oxford Democrat (Paris, Me.)
1866
Cholera, Rails, and Gold Rushes: America's Messy Reconstruction, April 1866
Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)
1865
April 25, 1865: 75 One-Legged Veterans Hobble In to Say Goodbye to Lincoln
Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)
1864
How the 161st New York Stopped a Rout and Saved an Army—April 1864
The New York herald (New York [N.Y.])
1863
Grant's Gamble at Vicksburg: The Week the Union Finally Got Its Timing Right (April 25, 1863)
Springfield weekly Republican (Springfield, Mass.)
1862
The Pilgrims' Friend Built Connecticut: A 5-Generation Land Dynasty
The Willimantic journal (Willimantic, Conn.)
1861
Week Two of War: How New York City Mobilized in 14 Days (With Ads for Cartridge Boxes)
New-York daily tribune (New-York [N.Y.])
1856
1856 Evansville: When River Towns Dreamed of Rails, Brass Bells, and $3,000 Lottery Homes
The Evansville daily journal (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.])
1846
Madrid's Learned Men Debate Decimal Reform While Spain Builds Its First Railroad (1846)
Gazeta de Puerto-Rico (San Juan, P.R.)
1836
Life, Death, and Commerce: What 1836 Washington Reveals About Money, Slavery, and Risk
Daily national intelligencer (Washington City [D.C.])

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