On This Day: December 16 — Century Dispatch

Lindbergh's Grand Tour Begins: Why Mexico City is Rolling Out the Red Carpet for America's Flying Ambassador

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

1926: The Day Television Was Predicted and Politics Got a $125K Scandal

New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)

1906: Roosevelt's Secret Slum Report Exposes Hell Blocks from the Capitol

The Washington times (Washington [D.C.])

Hurricane Warnings, Burned Child, Spanish Treachery: What Augusta Read on December 16, 1896

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

Twelve Men Vie for One Job: Inside a Reconstruction-Era Election Gone Wild

The weekly Copiahan (Hazlehurst, Copiah County, Miss.)

1865: Confederate Exiles Flee to Brazil While Hawaii Sells Pain Killer by the Gross

The Pacific commercial advertiser (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands)

Toxic Candy, Desperate Grizzlies & Grant's Rejected Job Application (Dec. 16, 1864)

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Seized Warships, Patent Pills & Luxury Imports: Washington's Bustling Wartime Economy (December 1863)

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

December 1862: A Vermont Preacher Argues God Is Correcting America, Not Destroying It

Green-Mountain freeman (Montpelier, Vt.)

New Orleans Newspaper Mocks Lincoln's War Cabinet (and Badly Underestimates the North)

New Orleans daily crescent ([New Orleans, La.])

Inside America's Secret Iron Battleship—and the French Gold Scam Draining the Mint (Dec. 16, 1856)

The Evansville daily journal (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.])

Winter 1836: The Steamboats Are Slowing Down, But the Railroads Are Racing Ahead

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