Century Dispatch
October 26
14 years of headlines
1927
A Communist Newspaper's Front Row Seat to 1927: Labor Wars, Oil Scandals, and Bankers Boasting About World Conquest
The daily worker (Chicago, Ill.;New York, N.Y.)
1926
1926: Communist Paper Begs for Rent Money While Trotsky Gets the Boot
The daily worker (Chicago, Ill.;New York, N.Y.)
1896
Nine Days to Decide America's Future: Gold vs. Silver, McKinley vs. Bryan (Oct. 26, 1896)
The record-union (Sacramento, Calif.)
1886
Oct 26, 1886: Cleveland heads to NYC for Lady Liberty's big day (plus a church scandal)
The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)
1876
Maine's Forgotten Cash Crop: Why Your Great-Great-Grandmother Made Money From Chickens (and You Didn't Know It)
The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.)
1866
Fenian Colonel Hanged, Hurricane Devastates Islands, and Prussian Europe Takes Shape—Oct. 26, 1866
Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)
1865
The hangman waits: Andersonville's commandant faces judgment as America wrestles with justice
Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)
1864
October 1864: Sherman Hunts Hood While Worcester Women Clothe the Freedmen
Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])
1863
An Illiterate Mother's Desperate Hunt Through the Mountains to Find Her Wounded Son (Civil War, 1863)
Canton weekly register (Canton, Ill.)
1862
October 1862: While the Civil War Raged, Columbus Sold Stoves, Snake Oil, and Sleeping Cars
Daily Ohio statesman (Columbus, Ohio)
1861
October 1861: New York Rallies for War—Horace Greeley, Recruitment Drives & a Colonel Named Berdan
New-York daily tribune (New-York [N.Y.])
1856
1856: When Newspapers Debated God, Immigration Shocked America, and New York Grew by 26% in 6 Years
New-York dispatch (New York [N.Y.])
1846
Glass Hernias and French Cloth: Inside 1846 Washington's Medical and Fashion Revolution
The daily union (Washington [D.C.])
1836
How America Moved in 1836: 26-Hour Stagecoaches and the Transportation Revolution That Almost Worked
Daily national intelligencer (Washington City [D.C.])

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