Century Dispatch
July 30
15 years of headlines
1927
Armed Bank Robbery, Brutal Murder & a Pilot Who Fell 7 Miles in Flames—July 1927's Wild Front Page
The West Virginia news (Ronceverte, W. Va.)
1926
1926: $65K Train Heist, Murder Socialite Jailed & Tennis Caps Causing Blindness
Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)
1906
🔥 Machine Guns in Moscow, Lynch Mobs in Pennsylvania — July 30, 1906
Evening star (Washington, D.C.)
1896
1896 Nebraska: When a Theater Critic Accidentally Became a Leading Man—and Saved the Show
The Sioux County journal (Harrison, Nebraska)
1886
The Great Dakota Divorce: A Territory Argues Its Own Division (1886)
The Mitchell capital (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.])
1876
A Midnight Battle on the Water: How One Yacht Snatched Victory from Five Rivals in the Race That Gripped New York
The sun (New York [N.Y.])
1866
One Year After Emancipation: How New Orleans Newspapers Tried to Explain Their Shattered World
New Orleans daily crescent ([New Orleans, La.])
1865
1865: 'Four million ignorant voters' — How America debated Black suffrage
The New York herald (New York [N.Y.])
1864
Atlanta Under Siege: Hood's Desperate Gamble Costs the Confederacy 10,000 Men in Three Days
Springfield weekly Republican (Springfield, Mass.)
1863
How the Union Navy Quietly Strangled the Confederacy (and What It Looked Like in Washington's Newspapers)
Evening star (Washington, D.C.)
1862
Inside a Confederate Town as the War Closes In: What One Arkansas Newspaper Reveals About July 1862
Washington telegraph (Washington, Ark.)
1861
When NYC Realized This Wasn't Going to Be a Short War (July 30, 1861)
New-York daily tribune (New-York [N.Y.])
1856
A Port City's Ledger: New Orleans Mutual Insurance Reports Reveal the Fragile Foundations of Antebellum Prosperity...
New Orleans daily crescent ([New Orleans, La.])
1846
The Penny Temperance Press: How a One-Cent Newspaper Tried to Sober Up 1846 Washington
The Columbian fountain (Washington, D.C.)
1836
Slave Auction & Champagne: What Washington's 1836 Classifieds Reveal About America
Daily national intelligencer (Washington City [D.C.])

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