Century Dispatch
May 7
15 years of headlines
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1927
Coal Disaster Kills 94 in West Virginia Mine—And a Governor's Fury Over Senate Defiance
The West Virginia news (Ronceverte, W. Va.)
1926
1926: British strikers vs. barbed wire buses, Arizona's deadly plane crash, and college kids as scabs
Douglas daily dispatch (Douglas, Ariz.)
1906
When Kansas Republicans Went to War With Themselves (And Uncle Joe Turned 70)
The Topeka state journal (Topeka, Kansas)
1896
The Last Hours of H.H. Holmes: America's First Celebrity Serial Killer Goes to the Gallows
Waterbury Democrat (Waterbury, Conn.)
1886
Inside Washington's Battle Over a Library, a Railway's Land Grab, and Why One Congressman Shocked Congress Into Silence
The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)
1876
100-Year-Old Blast: When a Dynamite Explosion Shook New York and Killed the Tunnel Foreman
The sun (New York [N.Y.])
1866
May 1866: When One Box of Pills Could Cure Four Years of Misery (Plus Why a Boston Pork Dealer's Death Made the Front...
Baltimore daily commercial (Baltimore, Md.)
1865
The Funeral Train That United America: Lincoln's 1,600-Mile Final Journey
New York dispatch (New York [N.Y.])
1864
When the Civil War Was Happening, This Ohio Town Was Selling Clothes Wringers—What Local Life Really Looked Like in May...
Ashtabula weekly telegraph (Ashtabula, Ohio)
1863
May 7, 1863: 'Certain Destruction' Awaits — Hooker's Bold Gambit Begins
Weekly national intelligencer (Washington [D.C.])
1862
May 1862: When the South Begged for Bullets While Selling Bonnets
The south-western (Shreveport, La.)
1861
War Comes to New Orleans: Inside the Day the City Began Mobilizing (May 7, 1861)
New Orleans daily crescent ([New Orleans, La.])
1856
1856: The Day New Orleans Was Still a Thriving Hub of Global Trade—Five Years Before It All Fell Apart
New Orleans daily crescent ([New Orleans, La.])
1846
May 1846: Democrats Fight Over Jackson's Monument (And Accidentally Defend Quackery)
Indiana State sentinel (Indianapolis)
1836
1836: The Moment America Bet Everything on Railroads, Steamboats & Life Insurance
Daily national intelligencer (Washington City [D.C.])

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