Century Dispatch
October 3
14 years of headlines
1927
The Week Before the Crash: Labor Celebrates, Gary Segregates, and Ruth Prepares for Glory
South Bend news-times (South Bend, Ind.)
1926
October 1926: When Dictators Rose and Democracy Trembled in Europe
Yidishes ṭageblaṭṭ = The Jewish daily news (New York, N.Y.)
1906
October 3, 1906: Taft Takes Cuba, Love Disrupted, and Death in the Steel Mills
Evening star (Washington, D.C.)
1896
Gold Floods In & Spain Grows Desperate: America's Cuban Crisis Hits a Boiling Point (Oct. 3, 1896)
Waterbury Democrat (Waterbury, Conn.)
1886
Henry George's Blueprint for Revolution: How a Labor Candidate Tried to Remake New York in 1886
The sun (New York [N.Y.])
1876
A Centennial Love Story: Serialized Romance and Water Cure Advertisements from 1876 Maine
Oxford Democrat (Paris, Me.)
1866
Oil Strikes Indiana, Cholera Strikes Cities, Sheridan Investigates Burned Texas: October 3, 1866
The Evansville journal (Evansville, Ind.)
1865
1865: Inside America's $30M gold vault (and the general who tried to rob it)
Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])
1864
October 1864: "The Rebels Are Broken"—But Chicago Fears an Invasion
Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)
1863
October 1863: Bryant's Fire-and-Brimstone Case for Immediate Emancipation—No Gradual Approach
New-York daily tribune (New-York [N.Y.])
1862
"She played dead with three bullets in her chest": Frontier siege and survival in 1862
The weekly pioneer and Democrat (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory)
1861
1861: A Young Grocer Abandons His Dreams for Gold—Should He Take the Bet?
Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])
1856
New Orleans' Secret Ledger: What 200+ Merchants Reveal About 1856 America (Spoiler: Everything)
New Orleans daily crescent ([New Orleans, La.])
1846
Mozart's Last Song & the Fight for America's Lead Mines: October 1846
Indiana State sentinel (Indianapolis [Ind.])

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