Century Dispatch
December 13
14 years of headlines
1927
Lindbergh Readies for Mexico, Spain Buys Out Foreign Goods, and an Execution in Florida
La gaceta (Tampa, Fla.)
1926
When Henry Ford Refused to Face a Jury About His Anti-Semitism
Yidishes ṭageblaṭṭ = The Jewish daily news (New York, N.Y.)
1906
1906: Oil scandals, Japanese tensions, and tongue fortune-telling in the North Carolina mountains
Watauga Democrat (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.)
1896
Britain Quietly Surrenders to Russia in China—and Nobody's Calling It That
The sun (New York [N.Y.])
1886
Sacramento, 1886: When $4,500 Bought You 80 Acres, a Peach Orchard, AND a Free Canary Whistle
Sacramento daily record-union (Sacramento [Calif.])
1876
Santa Claus Comes to Dakota Territory: How a Frontier Town Celebrated Christmas in 1876
Lincoln County advocate (Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.])
1866
Did Jefferson Davis Order Lincoln's Assassination? A Shocking Claim Surfaces in 1866
The Evansville journal (Evansville, Ind.)
1865
Dec 13, 1865: Jeff Davis gets 'genteel wardrobe' while Congress fights over Reconstruction
Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)
1864
Grant's Final Squeeze: The Railroad Move That Doomed the Confederacy (Dec. 13, 1864)
Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])
1863
Knoxville Victory + Illinois Silences War Critics: Grant's Momentum Shifts the Civil War
Chicago daily tribune (Chicago, Ill.)
1862
Where Is General Banks Going? The Mystery That Had Lincoln's Army Guessing in December 1862
Springfield weekly Republican (Springfield, Mass.)
1861
New Orleans Drills for War: The Day a Great City Became a Military Camp (Dec. 13, 1861)
New Orleans daily crescent ([New Orleans, La.])
1856
Inside a 1856 Navy's Shopping List: How the U.S. Government Bought War Supplies Before Civil War
The daily union (Washington [D.C.])
1836
The Mysterious English Doctor Claiming to Cure Blindness With Colored Water (Washington, 1836)
Daily national intelligencer (Washington City [D.C.])

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