Century Dispatch
June 3
14 years of headlines
1927
A Connecticut Town Grieves: One Man's Secret, Another's Crime, and Golden Love After 50 Years
Putnam patriot (Putnam, Conn.)
1926
KKK Constable Bombs Wedding, Gets Life Sentence in 5 Days (Plus: Evangelist's Mom Pays Ransom?)
Douglas daily dispatch (Douglas, Ariz.)
1906
Crooked Cops Caught Red-Handed in 1906 NYPD Sting Operation
The sun (New York [N.Y.])
1896
Inside the Money Crisis Threatening the 1896 Democratic Convention—Plus Tesla's Secret Train Test
Waterbury Democrat (Waterbury, Conn.)
1886
How Ohio's 1886 Gerrymander Fight Reveals the Real History of Rigged Elections
The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.)
1876
A Horse Worth $1,000 and Five-Cent Silk Thread: Life in Centennial Maine
Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)
1866
Irish-American Soldiers Storm Canada—U.S. Caught in the Middle (June 3, 1866)
Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)
1865
1865: When a Philadelphia socialite discovered that farm life beats high society
The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)
1864
Louisiana Votes to Abolish Slavery—A Connecticut Newspaper Reckons With War, Money, and the Future
The Willimantic journal (Willimantic, Conn.)
1863
June 1863: The Day Arkansas Sold Substitutes and Hunted Deserters—Life Under Confederate Collapse
Washington telegraph (Washington, Ark.)
1862
A Woman Major, a Jailed Husband, and Why the Dutch Emancipation Matters: June 3, 1862
Cleveland morning leader (Cleveland [Ohio])
1861
Two Months Into War, Evansville Still Dreams of Peacetime Commerce—See What Changed
The Evansville daily journal (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.])
1856
Delaware's Lottery Bonanza & the Steamship Race Across the Atlantic (June 3, 1856)
The daily union (Washington [D.C.])
1846
Soldier's Letter From Mexico: How Taylor's Army Routed 2,000 Mexicans in Two Days—And Made Him President
The daily union (Washington [D.C.])

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