On This Day: February 17 — Century Dispatch

California Drowning, Texas Guinan Jailed, & a Vengeful Millionaire's Plot: Feb. 17, 1927

New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)

The prosecutor who nailed Scopes just got nailed himself (with a whiskey bottle) 🥃

The Indianapolis times (Indianapolis [Ind.])

1906: Russia fears war with China as Nome sells $1,400 rugs and serves 12¢ bourbon

The Nome tri-weekly nugget (Nome, Alaska)

Inside the Gilded Age: Arctic Explorers, Government Gossip & a $1.50 Glove Sale That Changed Everything

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

A Gentleman's Farewell: How Maryland Mourned Its Visionary Senator in 1876

Saint Mary's beacon (Leonard Town, Md.)

1866: 'Pay Day Must Come'—A Prophet Warns Post-War America About Financial Catastrophe (He's Right)

The Placer herald (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.)

1865: The mother who spun, knit & mailed stockings to her soldier son in 12 hours

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Inside Richmond's War Room: How the Confederacy Planned Its Last Great Gamble (And Why It Failed)

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

Inside the Collapsing Confederacy: A Woman's Letter from Starving Virginia Reveals Richmond's $75 Shoes and Economic...

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

"We Have Crossed the Rubicon": Union Troops March to Victory as Lincoln Predicts War's End (Feb 17, 1862)

Cleveland morning leader (Cleveland [Ohio])

One Week Before Lincoln's Inauguration: Washington Prepares for War While Peace Talks Collapse

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

1856: When America Still Believed the Missouri Compromise Could Hold (Spoiler: It Couldn't)

New-York dispatch (New York [N.Y.])

Boots, Teeth, and Miracle Cures: Inside a Portsmouth Merchant's Struggle (1846)

The New Hampshire gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.])

A 750-Pound Cheese and the Slave Market: Inside Washington's Contradiction on Feb. 17, 1836

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