On This Day: December 23 — Century Dispatch

The Marian Parker Murder: How a Teenage 'Plausible Liar' Terrified a Nation for One Week

Douglas daily dispatch (Douglas, Ariz.)

🎄 1926: Missing car, square dancing firefighters, and a Revolutionary War mountain becomes a park

Watauga Democrat (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.)

When Teddy Roosevelt Shared Hardtack in Cuba, Then Destroyed a Soldier's Life

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

Serial Arsonist Strikes Again in Portland—And Congress Debates Seizing the Railroads (Dec. 23, 1896)

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

1886: When Santa Claus Came to West Virginia (And Courtship Lasted Weeks in Greenland)

The Parkersburg press (Parkersburg, W. Va.)

The Christmas Week America's Presidency Fell Apart—A Mississippi Paper Captures the Chaos

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

1865: When Christmas ads sold Confederate generals & gold pens came with dating advice

Baltimore daily commercial (Baltimore, Md.)

SHERMAN MARCHES: Inside the Most Daring Campaign of the Civil War—With Fake Legislators and Panic-Stricken Governors

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

Four Hundred Rebel Raiders Exposed—Plus Commodore Vanderbilt's Golden Wedding | Worcester, Dec. 23, 1863

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

December 23, 1862: A Confederate Soldier's View from the Brink of Fredericksburg—and Congress Debates Lincoln's War...

Memphis daily appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)

Dunked in Mud & Demoted: How One Volunteer's War Went Sideways (Dec. 23, 1861)

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

The Last Golden Age of New Orleans Commerce: A Port City's Final Peaceful December

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

Christmas 1846 in Washington: French Bonbons, Army Occupation, and the Daguerreotype Revolution

The daily union (Washington [D.C.])