On This Day: December 14 — Century Dispatch

A venison conviction costs him everything—while mining companies flee Minnesota's iron range

Grand Rapids herald-review (Grand Rapids, Itasca County, Minn)

When the President Sold $3 Potatoes and Elephants Terrorized Kansas

The Milwaukee leader (Milwaukee, Wis.)

Roosevelt Wants Puerto Ricans as Citizens, Sugar Trust Pays $150K Fine

The Willimantic journal (Willimantic, Conn.)

"Treacherous Murder" in Cuba Ignites America's War Fever—December 1896

The record-union (Sacramento, Calif.)

Christmas 1886: When Turkey Cost $2 and Butter Came With an Anti-Margarine Guarantee

Morning journal and courier (New Haven [Conn.])

When a $5,600 Budget Exposed Fertilizer Fraud: Inside 1876's Agricultural Revolution

The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.)

1866: When Western Newspapers Declared Independence from New York—Plus a Hero's Death in the Flames

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

Sherman Closes In on Savannah: The War's Final Chapter Begins (Dec. 14, 1864)

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

How a Civil War Treasury Report Predicted America's Debt Crisis—and Why Cleveland Merchants Kept Selling Fur Coats

Cleveland morning leader (Cleveland [Ohio])

When Baseball Mourned Its First Star—And Doctors Faced Justice for Abortion in Civil War New York

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

December 1861: As the Civil War Deepens, New York's Churches Become Battlegrounds for the Nation's Soul

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

When New Yorkers Debated How High You Could Fly (1856): Science, Slavery Data, and Gold Rushes in Melbourne

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

A Renegade Officer, a Framed Sergeant, and the Fall of Mexico: December 14, 1846

American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper (Baltimore, Md.)

The Barber's Reading Room & a Dying Bank: Washington's Last Calm December Before the Crash

Daily national intelligencer (Washington City [D.C.])