Century Dispatch
November 19
14 years of headlines
1927
How a 17-Year-Old Became Sultan Before His Father's Tomb Closed—and Why Washington's Top Lawyer Got Erased From the...
Evening star (Washington, D.C.)
1926
1926: When a Ford cost $150 and your local paper published full novels
Montgomery County sentinel (Rockville, Md.)
1906
41 Dead in Puget Sound Disaster + Kansas Buried Under Season's First Blizzard
The Topeka state journal (Topeka, Kansas)
1896
"100 Fake Voters & a Wheat Boom: South Dakota's 1896 Election Chaos Explained"
Turner County herald (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.])
1886
Ex-President Arthur Dead at 56: A Stroke in the Night Changes America's Course
Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)
1876
Election Day 1876: When Sherman & Hayes Watched the South Count—and Democracy Hung in the Balance
New Orleans Republican (New Orleans, La)
1866
A Minister's Fall & Mexico's Emperor: The Scandals Shaking America, November 1866
Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)
1865
1865: Iowa's Thanksgiving, Missing $176M in Whiskey Taxes, and Why Correspondents Spy on Cabinet Members' Shirt Collars
The daily Gate City (Keokuk, Iowa)
1863
November 1863: A Small-Town Iowa Editor Demands Total War—And Won't Back Down
Charles City Republican intelligencer (Charles City, Iowa)
1862
When the South Almost Took California: A Civil War Plot That Almost Changed Everything
Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])
1861
When America Was at War but Evansville Kept Selling Stoves: November 1861
The Evansville daily journal (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.])
1856
82 Miles of Empire: How the South Raced to Build Its Future (Four Years Before It All Fell Apart)
The daily union (Washington [D.C.])
1846
Desperate Tailors, Defiant Mexico, and a Mysterious $5M Loan Gone Wrong—Nov. 19, 1846
American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper (Baltimore, Md.)
1836
26 Hours From Baltimore to the Carolinas: How America Became Obsessed with Speed (November 1836)
Daily national intelligencer (Washington City [D.C.])

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