Century Dispatch
July 26
14 years of headlines
1927
When 5,000+ People Showed Up to a Small-Town Barbecue: South Carolina's 1927 Summer of Big Politics
The herald and news (Newberry S.C.)
1926
30 Dead from Poison Gin & America's First Female Governor Hosts Historic Summit
Brownsville herald (Brownsville, Tex.)
1906
1906: When Roosevelt broke precedent, prices soared 7%, and Chicago's trams played tax games
Springfield weekly Republican (Springfield, Mass.)
1896
McKinley Courts Factory Workers While Bryan's Own Party Defies Him—1896's Strangest Campaign Day
New-York tribune (New York [N.Y.])
1886
1886 Sacramento: When a 440-Acre Farm Cost Less Than a San Francisco Apartment
Sacramento daily record-union (Sacramento [Calif.])
1876
When $7 a Year Was Expensive & Morphine Cures Were Legal: Inside an 1876 Maine Newspaper
Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)
1866
One Year After Appomattox: A Kansas Paper's Fractured America, a Murdered Monkey, and What Reconstruction Really Looked...
White Cloud Kansas chief (White Cloud, Kan.)
1865
1865: Georgia's governor declares 'slavery exists no more' + the fisherman who caught a church membership certificate
Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])
1864
A Soldier's Blue Coat & the Tax Law That Built Modern America (July 1864)
Green-Mountain freeman (Montpelier, Vt.)
1863
Fort Wagner Falls: Black Soldiers' Courage & Lee's Narrow Escape—July 26, 1863
The New York herald (New York [N.Y.])
1862
1862: The Day America Invented Federal Taxes—And Gave Birth to the IRS
Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])
1861
July 26, 1861: Pennsylvania Democrats Blast Lincoln as War Rages—'They've Turned Out White Men to Make Room for Negroes'
The Bedford gazette (Bedford, Pa.)
1856
When California Land Claims Got So Tangled, It Took a Federal Court Decree 3 Pages Long (1856)
The daily union (Washington [D.C.])
1846
When Ships, Not Airplanes, Brought America Its Dreams: The Immigrant Ads That Filled the 1846 Herald
The New York herald (New York [N.Y.])

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