On This Day: February 16 — Century Dispatch

Jazz Made Him Kill, France Said No to Peace: Feb. 16, 1927

The Elkins inter-mountain (Elkins, W. Va.)

1926: When City Hall hired 10 lawyers (including the Klan's counsel) and a tennis match caused international fainting

The Indianapolis times (Indianapolis [Ind.])

1906: When America Created Modern Police, Roosevelt Nearly Invaded Morocco, and Oregon Revolutionized Food

The Oregon mist (St. Helens, Columbia County, Or.)

How Snow Got Stacked in Pyramids: Washington's Winter Crisis of 1886

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

1876 Augusta: When Laughing Gas Was Cutting-Edge Dentistry & Everyone Sold Hair for a Living

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

One Year After Lee's Surrender: Grant's Bold Gamble on Reconstruction (Feb. 16, 1866)

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

Feb 16, 1865: 'South Carolina Under His Heel' — Sherman's Army Cuts Confederacy in Two

New-York daily tribune (New-York [N.Y.])

A Soldier's Plea: Inside Richmond's War Offices in February 1864

Richmond Whig (Richmond, Va.)

A General's Fury: When Union Officers Turned on Northern 'Peace' Advocates—Feb. 16, 1863

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Inside the Rebel Fortress: The Day Union Spies Mapped Bowling Green's 40 Cannons

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

A Southern Gazette on the Brink: Why This 1861 Newspaper Ignored the Civil War About to Explode

Arkansas state gazette (Little Rock, Ark.)

America's Forgotten Gambling Habit: When States Ran Lotteries for Profit (1856)

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

Tennessee's Firebrand vs. Virginia's Diplomat: The Oregon Debate That Almost Tore Congress Apart (1846)

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

1836: When Washington's Newspapers Sold Everything—Including People

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