Century Dispatch
November 14
15 years of headlines
1927
27 Dead as Giant Gas Tank Explodes in Pittsburgh; 3,000 Homeless
Imperial Valley press (El Centro, Calif.)
1926
1926: Flying tackles stop robbers, communists crash royal party, and Texas wins big
Brownsville herald (Brownsville, Tex.)
1906
🦌 1906: When Pet Deer Kill & Brothers-in-Law Shoot Doctors
The Lancaster news (Lancaster, S.C.)
1896
The Cuban War is Heating Up—And America Is Quietly Preparing for War (November 1896)
The Dalles weekly chronicle (The Dalles, Or.)
1886
Geronimo's Last Stand, Mayor Grace's Scandal & a Gypsy Girl Coming to Seattle—November 14, 1886
Seattle daily post-intelligencer (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.])
1876
Small-Town Scandal: How a Maine Pastor Got His Revenge with Fence Biscuits (1876)
Oxford Democrat (Paris, Me.)
1866
One Year After Appomattox: U.S. Arrests a Mexican General & the South Descends Into Lawlessness
The Evansville journal (Evansville, Ind.)
1865
1865: Oil Boom Fortunes, Poisoned Bullets, and the Traveling Newspaper That Outran Sherman
Baltimore daily commercial (Baltimore, Md.)
1864
Election Victory, Confederate Collapse, and Sheridan's Triumphant Review—The Union's Turning Point
New-York daily tribune (New-York [N.Y.])
1863
Lincoln's "Well Done": The Two-Word Telegram That Rallied an Army (Nov. 14, 1863)
New-York daily tribune (New-York [N.Y.])
1862
Maryland's Wartime Economy Unravels: How a Small-Town Newspaper Reveals the Civil War's Hidden Cost
Montgomery County sentinel (Rockville, Md.)
1861
Arkansas Goes to War: A Governor's Desperate Plea, Confiscated Enemy Property & Pianos Still for Sale (Nov 14, 1861)
Arkansas true Democrat (Little Rock, Ark.)
1856
When America Auctioned Off Its Future: Inside a 1856 Federal Contracts Bonanza (Complete with $60,000 Lottery Prizes)
The daily union (Washington [D.C.])
1846
Andrew Jackson Threatened to Throw a Captain Out a Window—and It Worked: November 1846
Indiana State sentinel (Indianapolis [Ind.])
1836
26 Hours from Baltimore to the Carolinas: How Americans Obsessed Over Speed in 1836
Daily national intelligencer (Washington City [D.C.])

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