Century Dispatch
September 8
15 years of headlines
1927
1927: How One West Virginia Woodsman Built America's Most Beautiful Graveyard—And Why Farmers Were Fighting Over Lime
Pocahontas times (Huntersville, W. Va.)
1926
1926: Minnesota spuds sweep State Fair as tragic accidents shake small town
Grand Rapids herald-review (Grand Rapids, Itasca County, Minn)
1906
1906: Bryan's World Tour Speech Previews His Next Presidential Run — Plus Poisoned Candy Murder
Macon beacon (Macon, Miss.)
1896
Bryan's Radical Demand: Your Vote Cannot Be Bought or Bullied (1896)
The Wichita daily eagle (Wichita, Kan.)
1886
Should Geronimo Be Executed? What Washington's Inner Circle Really Thought (Sept. 1886)
The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)
1876
Arizona's Reputation Crisis: One Casual Remark Nearly Ruins Prescott (1876)
Arizona weekly miner (Prescott, Ariz.)
1866
Election Fraud, Freed Slaves, & Taxes: What Democrats Were Actually Saying in 1866
The Placer herald (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.)
1865
1865: When Dead Cattle Formed Bridges Across the Nile & a Boxing Vicar Fought for Souls
Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])
1864
Connecticut Goes All-In: The Militia Law That Turned a Small Town Into a War Machine (Sept. 1864)
The Willimantic journal (Willimantic, Conn.)
1863
Inside the Secret Tech Race That Might End Charleston—And the Midnight Democratic Plot That Threatens Peace
Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])
1862
September 1862: The South's Treasury Admits the Unthinkable—and It's All in This Memphis Newspaper
Memphis daily appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)
1861
Kentucky's Neutrality Collapses: Read the Secret Letters That Warned of Civil War's Spread
Memphis daily appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)
1856
The Republican Party's Birth Certificate: How They Called Out President Pierce's Kansas Crimes (1856)
Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])
1846
Mail to Oregon is FREE (1846): How America's frontier finally got connected
The daily union (Washington [D.C.])
1836
1836: When Engineering Was the Gold Rush—and Granite Cost $25,000
Daily national intelligencer (Washington City [D.C.])

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