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April 27
1927
Delaware's $300,000 Gamble: Governor Bets School Surplus Over Tax Protest
Smyrna times (Smyrna, Del.)
1926
The Teen Bandit with a Cigarette Case Pistol & Other 1926 Crime Capers
New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)
1906
April 27, 1906: Prison inmates offer their blankets as San Francisco burns 🔥
The Oregon mist (St. Helens, Columbia County, Or.)
1896
A 13-Year-Old Con Man, A Cyclone in Kansas, and the Last Great Shipyard Launch
Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)
1886
Should the White House Stay Original? Congress Votes—Plus a Scandal at the Chinese Minister's Mansion
The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)
1876
Why a Maine Farmer Thinks You're Feeding Your Pigs All Wrong (1876)
The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.)
1866
One Year After Appomattox: Vigilantes, Carpetbaggers, and Why McCulloch's Appointment Sparked Fury
Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)
1865
April 27, 1865: Lincoln's Funeral Train Crosses New York as America Mourns
Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)
1864
Bayonets at Dawn: How Union Troops Stabbed Their Own Supply Line Into Action
New-York daily tribune (New-York [N.Y.])
1863
April 1863: One Illinois Town's Vicious War on Dissenters—and the Love Letter That Wasn't Censored
Canton weekly register (Canton, Ill.)
1862
Memphis Under Siege: The Day a Confederate Captain Begged for Soldiers While Europe's Poor Starved for Cotton
Memphis daily appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)
1861
Fort Sumter Fired 16 Days Ago—Arkansas Still Selling Goods Like Nothing Happened
Arkansas state gazette (Little Rock, Ark.)
1856
"A Heroic Dog Grown Insolent": When Senator Douglas and a Kansas Delegate Nearly Dueled Over a Betrayed Confidence...
The New York herald (New York [N.Y.])
1846
A Senator's Daughter Learns a Lesson From an Irish Gardener (and a Warning About War Nobody Heeded)
American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper (Baltimore, Md.)
1836
Found in 1836 Newspaper: How Slave Traders and Insurance Brokers Shared the Front Page in Jacksonian America
Daily national intelligencer (Washington City [D.C.])
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