Century Dispatch
June 16
14 years of headlines
1927
When 15,000 Coal Miners Marched Through Pittsburgh: The Strike America Forgot (1927)
Amerikanski srbobran (Pittsburg, Pa.;Pittsburgh, Pa.)
1926
When Dueling Counts Refused to Shoot & Dutch Police Hunted Hair Bandits
The Alaska daily empire (Juneau, Alaska)
1906
1906: When graduation meant orchestras, a 4-year-old's river rescue, and a $100 town hall
The Cecil Whig (Elkton, Md.)
1896
The Wave That Left Ships on Sand: Hawaii's Tidal Drama (and a Coffee Boom That Never Was)
The Hawaiian star (Honolulu [Oahu])
1886
When the South Turned Dueling Into Legend: A Journalist's 1886 Obsession With Pistols, Honor, and Bloodshed
The Fairfield news and herald (Winnsboro, S.C.)
1876
A Maine Town's Commerce in 1876: What $25 Could Buy You (A Stallion)
Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)
1866
A Pillar of Fire 1,000 Feet High: Hawaii's Mauna Loa Eruption Wows the World (June 16, 1866)
The Placer herald (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.)
1865
1865: When Union generals turned on each other & Dickens recalled his reporter days
Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])
1863
Lee Invades the North: Lincoln Calls 100,000 Militia (Plus His Candid Take on Emancipation)
Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])
1862
Corinth Captured But Victory Slips Away: Inside the Union's Most Frustrating Moment of 1862
Cleveland morning leader (Cleveland [Ohio])
1861
Nashville's Last Gasp of Normalcy: What a 1861 Newspaper Reveals About a City on the Brink
Daily Nashville patriot (Nashville, Tenn.)
1856
A Booming Capital on the Edge: Washington's Real Estate Boom, June 1856
Daily national intelligencer (Washington City [D.C.])
1846
Inside Occupied Mexico: What One Witness Saw in the Hospitals—and Why Mexican Women Wore $25,000 Diamonds
American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper (Baltimore, Md.)
1836
The Day America Advertised 500 Enslaved People Next to Train Schedules
Daily national intelligencer (Washington City [D.C.])

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