On This Day: December 22 — Century Dispatch

100 Years Ago: Rural Nebraska Splurges on Roads—Then the Crash Came

The Gordon journal (Gordon, Sheridan County, Neb.)

🎄 Christmas floods kill 5, Texas Guinan kisses fed agents, and why America kept the Philippines

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

1906: When Talking Machines Cost $10 and Judges Worked Past Midnight

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

When Chicago's Strongest Bank Collapsed in 24 Hours—And Nearly Took the City's Money With It

Waterbury Democrat (Waterbury, Conn.)

Election Chaos and Christmas Shopping: Inside the Day America's Electoral Crisis Reached Wilmington

The daily gazette (Wilmington, Del.)

How Half of New York's Whiskey Vanished: The 1866 Fraud That Shocked America

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

Dec 22, 1865: Congress Demands Jefferson Davis Trial, Plans to Buy Ford's Theatre

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

Sherman Wraps Up His Greatest Prize: Savannah Falls, Confederacy Crumbling (Dec. 22, 1864)

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

A Soldier's Honest Confession: What Really Happened at Brandy Station (And a Vermont Hero's Last Stand)

Green-Mountain freeman (Montpelier, Vt.)

Fredericksburg's Horror: How a Confederate Victory Spelled Doom

Richmond Whig (Richmond, Va.)

War and Commerce Coexist: What Columbus Was Buying in 1861

Daily Ohio statesman (Columbus, Ohio)

One Man vs. 25: How Worcester Was Arming Itself on the Eve of Civil War

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Soldiers Return Home as Baltimore Grapples With Africa—Inside 1846's Deepening American Divide

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