On This Day: December 2 — Century Dispatch

Feds Shadow Every Chicago Cop: "Protection Money" Scandal Threatens Mass Indictments

The Bismarck tribune (Bismarck, N.D.)

When tragedy struck a mountain family: Three children lost in 1926 house fire

Pocahontas times (Huntersville, W. Va.)

A Railroad Man Takes the Helm—And One Scoundrel Flees With a Horse (December 2, 1896)

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

When Hilarious Hynes 'knocked out the bottom'—inside a wild Nebraska town directory from 1886

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

Before the FDA, Before the IRS: Inside Augusta, Maine's December 1876

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

Treasury Under Fire, Freedmen in the Balance, and a Cattle Plague That Emptied Kentucky Farms—December 1866

The daily Gate City (Keokuk, Iowa)

Sherman's Endgame: What Confederate Generals Fear Most (Dec. 2, 1864)

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

A Mother's Impossible Choice & a Mountain Too Steep to Climb: Civil War's Turning Point Hits Cleveland Hard

Cleveland morning leader (Cleveland [Ohio])

Burnside's Gamble: 125,000 Rebels Fortify While Union Officers Desert and Vegetables Run Out

New-York daily tribune (New-York [N.Y.])

Lincoln's War Message Arrives as Confederate Missouri Begs for Soldiers (December 1861)

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

Federal Gold Rush: How Washington Bet $Millions on Southern Railroads—Two Months Before the Crisis

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

The Panther's Vengeance: How One Frontiersman Ended an Indian War (1846)

Indiana State sentinel (Indianapolis [Ind.])

Virginia's Electors Chosen, Enslaved Workers Sold West: Democracy & Slavery in 1836

Richmond enquirer (Richmond, Va.)