On This Day: December 15 — Century Dispatch

A 230-Year-Old Jefferson Mystery: Did a Giant Claw Monster Roam West Virginia?

Pocahontas times (Huntersville, W. Va.)

1926: When $8 Christmas bonuses thrilled firefighters & basketball ruled Friday nights

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

When Minnesota Farmers Learned Modern Agriculture & Confederate Money Still Fooled Some Folks (Dec 15, 1906)

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

A Nebraska Senator's Furious Defense: When the West Took On Eastern Elites in 1896

The Wichita daily eagle (Wichita, Kan.)

Danish Nebraskans Read About Bulgarian Thrones & Murder Trials (1886)

Stjernen (St. Paul, Howard County, Nebraska)

The South Reclaims Itself: Wade Hampton Takes Office as Reconstruction Crumbles (Dec. 1876)

The daily gazette (Wilmington, Del.)

Fire, Politics & Gallows: December 1866's America Caught Between War and Peace

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

1865: When Farmers Thought They Could Read Jupiter's Weather Belts (Plus 2 Million Gallons of American Wine)

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Napoleon Wants to Remake Europe—Britain Says 'Nice Try, But What's the Catch?'

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

When a Princess Spent a Fortune on Love—and Lost Everything to a Mob's Bullet

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

How the North Already Won (Before the Real Fighting Started): A December 1861 Dispatch

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

How Worcester Manufacturers Made America Rich (While the Nation Tore Itself Apart)

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

When Steamboats Cost $6 and Barbers Had Newspaper Archives: A Day in 1836 Washington

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