Century Dispatch
June 25
15 years of headlines
1927
The Italian Hero Nobody Remembers: How De Pinedo Beat Lindbergh Across the Atlantic (And Why History Forgot)
La sentinella = The sentinel (Bridgeport, Conn.)
1926
When Love Bloomed in Libraries: A 1926 Peek at Romance & Roasters
Montgomery County sentinel (Rockville, Md.)
1906
1906: When Utah miners nearly struck, Hawaiian music toured America, and fake mining stocks fooled London
Deseret evening news (Great Salt Lake City [Utah])
1896
1896: When Cornell Rowers Beat Harvard, Democrats Screamed for Silver, and Britain Blinked First
Waterbury Democrat (Waterbury, Conn.)
1886
Cleveland's Yacht Escape & The Naval Academy Cheating Scandal That Shocked Washington
The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)
1876
Can Tilden the Reformer Unite the Democrats? Inside the St. Louis Convention's Bitter Fight
The sun (New York [N.Y.])
1866
100 Years Ago Today: Portland's Lost Letters & Real Estate Fire Sale (June 1866)
The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)
1865
June 25, 1865: Confederate VP's Daring Escape to Cuba in a Turtle Egg Diet
Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)
1864
Petersburg Becomes the Crucible: Grant's Gamble to Strangle Richmond (June 25, 1864)
Springfield weekly Republican (Springfield, Mass.)
1863
EXCLUSIVE: Rebel Leaders Losing Their Grip—North Carolina Papers Turn on Jefferson Davis (June 1863)
Charles City Republican intelligencer (Charles City, Iowa)
1862
A Maine Newspaper Catches Its Rival Red-Handed on the Constitution (June 25, 1862)
The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)
1861
A Song Divides a Nation: How 'Yankee Doodle' Became a Civil War Battlefield (June 1861)
Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])
1856
Inside a Golden-Age Port: The Ships, Merchants & Hidden Details of 1850s New Orleans
New Orleans daily crescent ([New Orleans, La.])
1846
How One Wool Merchant Lost $9,500 and Changed American Agriculture (1846)
Burlington hawk-eye (Burlington, Iowa)
1836
1836: When False Teeth Cost 75 Cents and the Capital Was Still Being Built
Daily national intelligencer (Washington City [D.C.])

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