Century Dispatch
December 7
15 years of headlines
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1927
Murder, Bootleggers & Plunging Bodies: America's Lurid December 7, 1927
New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)
1926
The Jack Daniels bootlegger, dream-guided grave digging, and Congress's wild 1926 wishlist
The Montgomery advertiser (Montgomery, Ala.)
1906
1906: Federal Cash Floods Kentucky Waterways, Nevada Gold Rush Claims Local Man
The Big Sandy news (Louisa, Ky.)
1896
6,000 Watched Two Navy Gunboats Launch in Maine—Here's What Made Them Revolutionary (and Already Obsolete)
Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)
1886
What Sacramento Wanted for Christmas 1886 (Spoiler: Fancy Plush Dressing Cases)
Sacramento daily record-union (Sacramento [Calif.])
1876
How Maine Farmers Turned Ocean Kelp Into Million-Dollar Harvests (1876)
The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.)
1866
Congress vs. Johnson: December 1866's Reconstruction Reckoning—and Why a Coal Oil Lamp Tragedy Mattered More Than You'd...
Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)
1865
December 1865: America's First Post-Civil War Thanksgiving & a $3 Billion Debt Bomb
Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])
1864
Lincoln's Secret Plan: Tax-Free Bonds for Every American (December 1864)
Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])
1863
Congress Nearly Didn't Organize: The Clerk's Coup Attempt That Almost Rewrote Reconstruction
The New York herald (New York [N.Y.])
1862
Grant's Army Sweeps Mississippi: Grenada Falls, and Seward's Diplomatic Gamble Backfires
Chicago daily tribune (Chicago, Ill.)
1861
New Orleans Under Arms: The Last Peaceful War Drills Before Occupation (Dec. 7, 1861)
New Orleans daily crescent ([New Orleans, La.])
1856
How Nashville Merchants Joked About the Atlantic Tunnel in 1856 (While Insuring Their Enslaved Workers)
Nashville union and American (Nashville, Tenn.)
1846
War Dispatches & City Mourning: How Maryland Honored Its Dead While the Army Conquered Mexico
American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper (Baltimore, Md.)
1836
1836 Providence: When Spot Remover Startups and Million-Dollar Cloth Halls Promised the American Dream
Republican herald (Providence [R.I.])

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