Century Dispatch
June 19
14 years of headlines
1927
Ghost Gets Arrested in Kansas While U.S. Navy Prepares for Historic Disarmament Showdown (June 19, 1927)
Evening star (Washington, D.C.)
1926
The day a million Catholics gathered, an 11-year-old became marble king, and a 'witch' lost her children
New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)
1906
When Mormon enemies became unlikely allies: The 1906 newspaper fire that shocked Salt Lake City
Deseret evening news (Great Salt Lake City [Utah])
1896
Women at the Convention, Catholics Under Fire: How the A.P.A. Tried to Reshape 1896 America
The American (Omaha, Nebraska)
1886
Corporate Spies, Forest Fires, and Sarsaparilla Cures: What Maine's Papers Revealed in June 1886
Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)
1876
How Portland Celebrated America's 100th Birthday (With 4-Horse Allegorical Floats & 13-Gun Salutes)
The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)
1866
War Erupts in Europe as Prussia Marches Into Holstein—Congress Debates America's Reconstruction (June 19, 1866)
Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)
1865
Confederate VP demands 'rights' not pardon + Johnson appoints new Southern governors
Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)
1864
Desperate Conscription & Shattered Regiments: A Confederate Newspaper's Final Months (June 1864)
Memphis daily appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)
1863
Lee's Victory at Winchester—But Can the South Hold It? A Raleigh Paper Grapples with War-Weariness in June 1863
Semi-weekly standard (Raleigh, N.C.)
1862
Victory in the Valley: Eyewitness Report from Frémont's Triumph Over Jackson—Plus Worcester's Desperate Call for...
Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])
1861
June 1861: An Indiana Town Selling Revolvers, Wool Socks & Normalcy—Before Everything Changed
The Evansville daily journal (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.])
1856
The Last Boom: A Day in New Orleans' Golden Age, 5 Years Before It All Burned (June 19, 1856)
New Orleans daily crescent ([New Orleans, La.])
1846
A Steamboat Captain's Dangerous Secret + A Theater Tragedy That Killed 46
American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper (Baltimore, Md.)

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