Century Dispatch
October 11
14 years of headlines
1927
Brownsville Gets Fire Trucks While Birmingham Burns: Oct. 11, 1927
Brownsville herald (Brownsville, Tex.)
1926
Stalin vs. Trotsky showdown, a nagging wife murder, and swimming the Hudson - October 11, 1926
Yidishes ṭageblaṭṭ = The Jewish daily news (New York, N.Y.)
1906
1906: When Civil War Vets Sang 'Marching Through Georgia' and Every American Was Supposed to Eat an Apple
The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.)
1896
The Secret Reason a British PM Quit (Hint: It's Not About Armenia) | Oct. 11, 1896
The sun (New York [N.Y.])
1886
The Agricultural Boom No One Remembers: How Sacramento Traded Gold for Grain (1886)
Sacramento daily record-union (Sacramento [Calif.])
1876
October 1876: Democrats Demand 'Reform'—And Accidentally Reveal Why the South Would Soon Vote Itself Into Jim Crow
The Louisiana Democrat (Alexandria, La.)
1866
The Election That Sealed Reconstruction: How October 1866 Made America's Future
The Evansville journal (Evansville, Ind.)
1864
October 1864: Sheridan Burns the Valley While Lincoln's Fate Hangs on Three States' Votes
Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)
1863
October 1863: Union Momentum Shifts—Railroads Repaired, Rebels Routed, and British Supply Lines Exposed
New York dispatch (New York [N.Y.])
1862
Senator Sumner's Bombshell: How a Maine Newspaper Published the Speech That Defended Emancipation (Oct. 11, 1862)
The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)
1861
When the World's Mightiest Ship Met the Sea—And Lost (Plus: McClellan's Big Move Looms)
The weekly pioneer and Democrat (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory)
1856
1856: The South's Last Railroad Dream (Before Everything Changed)
The daily union (Washington [D.C.])
1846
New York's Bold 1846 Constitution: Democracy for Some, Disenfranchisement for Others
The New York herald (New York [N.Y.])
1836
A Father's Desperate Plea in 1836: Missing Boy Last Seen on the Ohio Canal
The Daily Cincinnati Republican, and commercial register (Cincinnati, Ohio)

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