Century Dispatch
July 14
15 years of headlines
1927
How Bootleggers Made Prohibition Unenforceable (And A Farmer's Robot Plow)
Amerikanski srbobran (Pittsburg, Pa.;Pittsburgh, Pa.)
1926
The Diver Who Stole a Submarine Bell & The $100M Explosion That Shook 1926
Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)
1906
1906: When a Mental Patient Crashed Baltimore's Fanciest Hotel & a Tomato Corner Collapsed
The Cecil Whig (Elkton, Md.)
1896
1896: The Democrats Explode Over Silver—And the Party Never Recovers
The Wichita daily eagle (Wichita, Kan.)
1886
A Fire Brigade Tragedy, $1.1 Million Manhattan Real Estate, and a Diplomat's Three-Hour Collapse—July 1886
Stjernen (St. Paul, Howard County, Nebraska)
1876
What Cost $7 a Year in 1876 Augusta? (Hint: Better Than Your Phone Plan)
Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)
1866
A Union General's Fiery Cry Against Reconstruction: Why He Said Federal Rights Laws Would Destroy America
The Placer herald (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.)
1865
1865: The Impossible Alpine Railway That Gripped Mountains with Sideways Wheels
The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)
1864
"I don't like to acknowledge that we swear them over again": A Union general confesses to the smuggling and spy...
Civilian & telegraph (Cumberland, Md.)
1863
The War Within the War: A Maine Newspaper's Fierce Debate Over Why the North is Really Fighting (July 1863)
The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)
1862
Manchester, 1862: How a New Hampshire Newspaper Sold War, Teeth, and Patriotic Hair Tonic
The Daily Manchester American (Manchester, N.H.)
1861
Lumbermen with Axes, Floating Bombs & The North's New War: July 1861
The New York herald (New York [N.Y.])
1856
A Massachusetts Town Prepares for War (Without Knowing It): July 1856
Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])
1846
Webster's Scathing War: A Senator Demands Truth About Mexico (1846)
The Somerset herald and farmers' and mechanics' register (Somerset, Pa.)
1836
1836 Washington: The Day They Moved Train Departures to 2:30 AM (And Other Signs of America's Transportation Wars)
Daily national intelligencer (Washington City [D.C.])

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