On This Day: December 4 — Century Dispatch

1927: When a Dentist's Drill Ended Up in a Man's Stomach—and Other Wild Stories from a Georgia Newspaper

The Cordele dispatch (Cordele, Georgia)

1926: How a Quiet Chicago Farmer Just Fleeced Wall Street for $10 Million

The Washington daily news (Washington, D.C.)

When Teddy Roosevelt fired Black soldiers without trial — and bragged about it

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

Corn for a Dime, Unfaithful Spouses by the Quarter-Million: Nebraska's Wild December 1896

The Gordon journal (Gordon, Sheridan County, Neb.)

Inside a Booming 1886 Louisiana Town: Where Beauregard Held Office and Druggists Sold Liquor Legally

Lake Charles commercial (Lake Charles, Calcasieu Parish, La.)

When Ole Bull Came to Portland: How One Newspaper Captured December 1876's Culture Wars

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

December 1865: $700K NYC Inferno Kills Fireman as Mexico Teeters

Baltimore daily commercial (Baltimore, Md.)

Sherman Closes In on Savannah as the Confederacy 'Trembles in Its Shoes'—December 4, 1864

New York dispatch (New York [N.Y.])

Lost Son Returns in Confederate Gray: How One Ohio Newspaper Told America's War-Torn Heart in 1863

Delaware gazette (Delaware, Ohio)

War Machine Visible: How Washington's Classifieds Reveal Civil War Logistics (Dec. 4, 1862)

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

December 1861: New York Women Are Sewing the Civil War Into Being—One Blanket at a Time

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

The South's Last Grand Railroad Dream (Before Everything Fell Apart)

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

How America's Tiny 1846 Government Actually Worked: The Budget That Cost Less Than a Modern Town

State journal & flag (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)