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1927
1927: West Virginia's Tax Meltdown—When Schools and Taxpayers Went to War
The West Virginia news (Ronceverte, W. Va.)
1926
The Great Lover's Final Journey: Valentino's Death Shocks America While Maine Fair Draws Record Crowds
Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)
1906
🏃♂️ Fugitive banker caught in Morocco after woman scorned tips off authorities
The Topeka state journal (Topeka, Kansas)
1896
A Flying Machine, a Meteor, and Why Your Farm's Management is Worth a Skilled Wage—Nebraska, 1896
The Sioux County journal (Harrison, Nebraska)
1886
1886: Watch a Balloon Trapeze Artist Soar Over Dakota's Greatest Fair (Plus Mule Races & Imported Stallions)
The Mitchell capital (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.])
1876
"This Man Was Rewarded With a Court Seat for Corruption"—Hendricks Eviscerates Grant's Cabinet
The sun (New York [N.Y.])
1866
Cholera, Reconstruction Violence & a Cable That Would Change the World — Sept. 3, 1866
The Evansville journal (Evansville, Ind.)
1865
The day Mississippi declared secession 'null and void' (plus a shocking murder confession)
Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)
1864
The Noose Tightens: Farragut Takes Mobile, Sherman Nearly Encircles Atlanta (September 3, 1864)
Springfield weekly Republican (Springfield, Mass.)
1863
A traveler's eye on wartime America: John Morgan in prison, railroads replacing canals, and 150,000 soldiers defending...
The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)
1862
Arkansas at War: Elections, Dried Fruit Orders & Crumbling Currency—Sept. 3, 1862
Washington telegraph (Washington, Ark.)
1861
War Raging, but Evansville's Brooms Cost 15 Cents: Life at the Border in 1861
The Evansville daily journal (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.])
1856
How the U.S. Government Nearly Mailed You a 160-Acre Land Deed (And Lost It in the Mail)
The daily union (Washington [D.C.])
1846
When Medical School Cost $3/Week & Girls Learned French Near the Capitol—Education in 1846
The daily union (Washington [D.C.])
1836
How America Built Itself: When a Newspaper's Front Page Told the Story of a Nation Betting Everything on Railroads,...
Daily national intelligencer (Washington City [D.C.])
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