Century Dispatch
September 26
14 years of headlines
1927
British Seaplanes Shatter Speed Records While Freakish September Snow Blankets the American West
New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)
1926
Babe Ruth's 3 HRs, a $400K London heist, and China's angry ultimatum to America
Evening star (Washington, D.C.)
1906
🇨🇺 'Cuba Drifts Without Rudder' — President Quits, 40,000 U.S. Troops Mobilize
Evening star (Washington, D.C.)
1896
Spanish Atrocities in Cuba + Gatling Guns at Colorado Mines: America's 1896 Colliding Crises
The Dalles weekly chronicle (The Dalles, Or.)
1886
How Gladstone Subdued a Bull With His Shawl (and Why He Won't Campaign for Ireland)
The sun (New York [N.Y.])
1876
Should He Marry for Love or Pride? A Lawyer's Anguish in 1876 Maine
Oxford Democrat (Paris, Me.)
1866
A War-Torn Parish Rebuilds: Louisiana's Land Grab of 1866
The Louisiana Democrat (Alexandria, La.)
1865
Armed Civil War Vets Plot Irish Invasion (Plus: Giant Frescoes & a President Who Won't Last)
Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])
1864
Richmond's Last Hope Crumbles: Inside the Confederate Paper's Anguished Account of Winchester
Richmond Whig (Richmond, Va.)
1863
Rosecrans Trapped in Georgia: How the Union Narrowly Escaped Annihilation at Chickamauga
Springfield weekly Republican (Springfield, Mass.)
1862
11,000 Surrendered at Harpers Ferry: A Union Correspondent's Eyewitness Account of Jackson's Greatest Triumph (Sept....
Montgomery County sentinel (Rockville, Md.)
1861
"Missouri Is Ours": How the Confederacy Legally Invented a State It Didn't Control (Sept. 26, 1861)
Arkansas true Democrat (Little Rock, Ark.)
1856
Evansville's Last Boom: A River Town on the Brink (1856)
The Evansville daily journal (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.])
1846
One Penny for Your Thoughts: How a Temperance Paper Launched Washington's Media Wars in 1846
The Columbian fountain (Washington, D.C.)

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