Century Dispatch
July 15
14 years of headlines
1927
A Connecticut Town Mourns Its Moral Compass—And an Airplane Vanishes
Putnam patriot (Putnam, Conn.)
1926
July 15, 1926: Coolidge Goes Cold on Campaigning as New England Burns Up
Springfield weekly Republican (Springfield, Mass.)
1906
1906: Millionaire Murderer Fires His Lawyers & The Dreyfus Bombshell
The Montgomery advertiser (Montgomery, Ala.)
1896
The Day the Democrats Broke (and the GOP Took Over for 36 Years)
The Dalles weekly chronicle (The Dalles, Or.)
1886
How Hurley, Dakota Territory Survived Without Banks (Patent Medicine & Artesian Wells)
Turner County herald (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.])
1876
A Mississippi Merchant Admits to $1,000 in Fraud—and the Church Made Him Pay It Back (1876)
The weekly Copiahan (Hazlehurst, Copiah County, Miss.)
1866
Rebuilt & Ready: How Mississippi's Merchants Bounced Back in 1866
Daily clarion and standard (Jackson, Miss.)
1865
July 1865: Maine Governor's Radical Plan for Black Voting Rights (Before It Was Popular)
The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)
1864
Lincoln's Capital Under Siege: How a Failed Confederate Raid Changed the War
Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])
1863
Money Collapsing, Men Drafted, Slaves Fleeing: One Arkansas Paper Captures the Confederacy's Triple Crisis, July 1863
Washington telegraph (Washington, Ark.)
1862
Beast Butler Exiles a Woman to an Island: Richmond's July 1862 Reckoning
Richmond Whig (Richmond, Va.)
1861
Three Weeks Into the War: Liszt Throws a Teacup, A Woman Escapes the Gallows, and Worcester Braces for Hell
Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])
1856
Insurance Millions & 1856 New Orleans: What $562K in Assets Really Meant on the Eve of War
New Orleans daily crescent ([New Orleans, La.])
1846
Free Trade vs. Factories: The Congressional Showdown That Changed America's Economy (1846)
The daily union (Washington [D.C.])

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