On This Day: November 18 — Century Dispatch

Ship Explodes in Baltimore, Bootlegger Faces Jury, and a Con Man Fooled a Governor—This Week in 1927

New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)

When bootleggers lost their cars and cream reports made front-page news

Pocahontas times (Huntersville, W. Va.)

Murder on Trial in Wiscasset: Was It Strangling or a Fall? New Witnesses Break the Case Wide Open

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

1886 O'Neill, Nebraska: When a Frontier Town Printed Itself Into Existence

The frontier (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.)

1876 Maine: When Hair Dye Killed You, Home Jobs Were Scams, and Your Boots Cost Extra Because They Were Custom

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

Nov 18, 1865: Confederate General Demands His Horses Back + Oil Boom Fraud

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

Should She Marry Him on $800 a Year? A Civil War–Era Debate That Still Stings

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

Lord Palmerston's Secret Shame & the South's Starving Cities: Nov. 18, 1863

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

This 1862 Editorial Absolutely Eviscerates Lincoln's Generals—And Predicted McClellan's Firing

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Rebel Diplomats Captured at Sea: How Two Confederates Nearly Started a War With Britain

The New York herald (New York [N.Y.])

Rails, Bonds & Redemption: How America Raced to Build Itself—5 Months Before It All Fell Apart

The daily union (Washington [D.C.])

The Horticulturist Debuts & Patent Trusses Boom: America's Commercial Life in November 1846

The daily union (Washington [D.C.])

Virginia's Old Money Liquidating: Why a Richmond Auction Page Reveals a Dying Aristocracy (1836)

Richmond enquirer (Richmond, Va.)