Century Dispatch
July 6
14 years of headlines
1927
Chain Stores Are Coming to Minnesota: How a Small Town's Fourth of July Masks Bigger Changes Ahead
Grand Rapids herald-review (Grand Rapids, Itasca County, Minn)
1926
When D.C. taxes jumped, bootleggers faced gasoline-spiked alcohol, and a mother vanished after obsessing over the...
The Washington daily news (Washington, D.C.)
1906
1906: Teddy Roosevelt Gets Soaked, Willimantic Beats 40,000-Person City for Federal Cash
The Willimantic journal (Willimantic, Conn.)
1896
Panic & Hope in Pittston: Inside the 1896 Convention That Changed America (and a Coal Mine Disaster)
Waterbury Democrat (Waterbury, Conn.)
1886
How Mrs. Cleveland Outsold Every Congressman—Plus the Government's Oyster Lab and a Woman Who Fell 15 Feet Unscathed
The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)
1876
A Merchant's Warning from 1876: The Currency Crisis Nobody Learned From
The daily gazette (Wilmington, Del.)
1866
A Maine Weekly Grapples With Morality & Class (1866): Can a Rich Man's Son Be Good?
Oxford Democrat (Paris, Me.)
1865
🎆 July 4th, 1865: America's first post-slavery Independence Day celebration
The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)
1864
A Soldier's Bloodstained Greenbacks & the War Nobody Thought Lincoln Could Win (July 1864)
The daily Gate City (Keokuk, Iowa)
1863
Citizen Soldiers: How Portland's Ordinary People Chased Down a Confederate Pirate Ship
The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)
1862
McClellan's Army Bloodied But Unbowed: The Seven Days that Changed the War
The New York herald (New York [N.Y.])
1861
When War Came to Evansville: A Town Selling Buttons Instead of Breaking News (July 1861)
The Evansville daily journal (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.])
1856
Mystery Mission in 1846: Why Did New York Halt to Watch a Tiny Boat Cross the Atlantic?
New-York dispatch (New York [N.Y.])
1846
War, Empire & Speed: How One Messenger & One Battle Changed America's Destiny (June 1846)
The New York herald (New York [N.Y.])

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