On This Day: February 22 — Century Dispatch

Italian Aviator Conquers the Atlantic—While a Hartford Builder Flees to California with $250,000

New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)

1926: Senator Declares War on World Court & 'Old Ironsides' Sets Sail Again

The Montgomery advertiser (Montgomery, Ala.)

1906: When Nebraska farmers plotted revolution & teachers battled the 'Congress' epidemic

The Loup City northwestern (Loup City, Neb.)

Gold Rush's Sequel: How Sacramento Sold California by the Acre in 1886

Sacramento daily record-union (Sacramento [Calif.])

A Robber's Dying Confession: How a Small Maine Paper Lectured Morality in 1876

Oxford Democrat (Paris, Me.)

One Year After Appomattox: Louisiana Pleads With Johnson as Congress Prepares to Overturn Him

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

February 1865: When Confederate-Union armies almost joined forces (plus a rebel's revenge killing)

Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator (Knoxville, Tenn.)

Europe's Powder Keg Ignites: Prussians Storm Danish Fortresses as Britain Looks Away

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

February 1863: While America Burns, New York Debates Hoop Skirts and Old Maids

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

How Civil War News Got *Lightning Fast* in 1862—and Why Newspapers Fought for Every Scoop

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

Two Presidents, Two Trains, One Collision Course—Read Davis's Full Inaugural Address as Lincoln Headed to Power

The weekly pioneer and Democrat (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory)

When America Auctioned Off States: Delaware's Wild $65,000 Lotteries (1856)

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

A President Sells Patronage Like Spoils of War—New York's Fury at John Tyler's Corruption (1846)

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

1836: A Hartford Pastor Launches a Newspaper to Save Theology From Modern Ideas (It Didn't Work)

The watchman (Hartford, Con[n])