Century Dispatch
June 8
13 years of headlines
1927
Earl Carroll Arrives in Prison as Congress Plans October Comeback—A Day of Reckoning in the Jazz Age
New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)
1926
1926: The Day 140 Deportees Arrived at Ellis Island & German Students Revolted
Yidishes ṭageblaṭṭ = The Jewish daily news (New York, N.Y.)
1906
The $215 Haircut & South Dakota's Political Revolution of 1906
The Mitchell capital (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.])
1896
A German Millionaire, Bicycle Scandals & the Last Laws of Hawaii (Before America Took Over)
The Hawaiian star (Honolulu [Oahu])
1886
Inside the Patent Office Meltdown of 1886: How America's Inventors Broke the System
The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)
1876
100 Years Young: A Small Maine Town's Commerce in Centennial 1876
Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)
1866
Invasion! Irish-Americans Swarm the Canadian Border—and America's Civil War Veterans Refuse to Stop Them (June 1866)
The Evansville journal (Evansville, Ind.)
1865
When Britain's Greatest Philosopher Warned America Not to Be 'Too Gentle' with the South
Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])
1863
How a British MP Nearly Won the War for the South (And Why He Failed)
The New York herald (New York [N.Y.])
1862
50 Cents for Opera & $8/Month for War Wounds: Inside New York's Double Life in 1862
Sunday dispatch (New York [N.Y.])
1861
"The Union Will Never Be Dissolved": A Kentucky Senator's Desperate Defense, June 1861
Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])
1856
Why Quakers Were Splitting Into Warring Sects (and What It Says About America in 1856)
New-York dispatch (New York [N.Y.])
1846
A Dead Sand Vendor, a Celebrated Hat, and Violin Genius: What Washington's Elite Were Debating on June 8, 1846
Daily national intelligencer (Washington City [D.C.])

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