Century Dispatch
October 9
14 years of headlines
1927
The $200,000 Wild Pitch: How the Yankees Won the 1927 World Series in the Most Dramatic Way Possible
Evening star (Washington, D.C.)
1926
Oct 9, 1926: Babe Ruth's Yankees One Win Away + The Evangelist, Radio Man & Murder Plot
Douglas daily dispatch (Douglas, Ariz.)
1906
Glass Fragments, Courtroom Brawls, and the 'Policy King' - October 9, 1906
The evening world (New York, N.Y.)
1896
When Europe Realigned & America Burned: October 1896's Turning Points
The Oregon mist (St. Helens, Columbia County, Or.)
1886
Inside the White House Kitchen (and How the West Was Being Stolen): Oct. 9, 1886
The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)
1876
How Portland Chased America's Centennial Dream—and Brought It Home for 25 Cents
The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)
1866
Shot in the Chest, and Nobody Knows Who Pulled the Trigger—New Orleans, 1866
New Orleans daily crescent ([New Orleans, La.])
1865
1865: Robert E. Lee Becomes College President & Other Strange Turns
Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)
1864
Grant Closes In on Richmond as British Banks Collapse—October 9, 1864
Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)
1863
Georgia Soldiers Destroy Raleigh Newspaper—Inside the Mob That Silenced the Press
Semi-weekly standard (Raleigh, N.C.)
1862
"Avoid the Shame of a Draft": How Worcester Faced War in October 1862—With Desperate Bounties and a Woman's...
Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])
1861
October 1861: How New York's Newspapers Turned Into War Machines
New-York daily tribune (New-York [N.Y.])
1856
October 1856: The South Builds Its Own Railroad While the Nation Fractures
The daily union (Washington [D.C.])
1846
Glass Hernias & Hernia Trusses: Why Washington's Doctors Were Raving About This 1846 Patent
The daily union (Washington [D.C.])

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