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1927
Christmas Eve 1927: Woman Pilot Missing Over Atlantic, Navy Races Against Time in Sub Disaster
Evening star (Washington, D.C.)
1926
Christmas 1926: Ty Cobb fights scandal, Japan gets new emperor, and a hungry man's dime
The Montgomery advertiser (Montgomery, Ala.)
1906
Christmas Day 1906: Millionaire's Car Kills Boy, Railroad Empire Under Fire
The Washington times (Washington [D.C.])
1896
War Drums Over Cuba: Inside the Senate Battle That Would Reshape America (Christmas 1896)
The Oregon mist (St. Helens, Columbia County, Or.)
1886
Rail Barons' Last Stand: How San Francisco's Shipping Kings Fought Federal Regulation (and Lost)
Sacramento daily record-union (Sacramento [Calif.])
1876
A Man Fell 50 Feet From a Roof and Walked Away: Christmas 1876 in Worcester
Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])
1866
Maximilian's Mexican Empire Crumbles on Christmas 1866—And America Watches
The Evansville journal (Evansville, Ind.)
1865
Christmas 1865: Mules who never see sunlight & bonnets uglier than sin
The daily dispatch (Richmond [Va.])
1864
Christmas 1864: Lee Caves on Slavery, Hood Boasts Before Nashville Defeat, War's End in Sight
New York dispatch (New York [N.Y.])
1863
Christmas 1863: A Dying Confederacy Pins Hope on a Monster Gun and Widow's Mites
Memphis daily appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)
1862
Lee's Fredericksburg Report: The Confederate General Explains His Stunning Christmas Victory
The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)
1861
Christmas 1861 in Memphis: How a Confederate City Went to War (One Blacksmith at a Time)
Memphis daily appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)
1856
Christmas 1856: Federal Building Booms, Lotteries Boom Louder—And One Patent Promises to Transform Cotton Forever
The daily union (Washington [D.C.])
1846
Mexican War Rages, Congress Splits, $600K in Goods Under Siege—Christmas 1846
New-York daily tribune (New-York [N.Y.])
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