On This Day: February 24 — Century Dispatch

When Springfield's $10M Budget Broke—and Why the City Couldn't Fix Its Schools

Springfield weekly Republican (Springfield, Mass.)

When Congress investigated Prohibition (and Chicago's 41st gang victim this year)

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

1906: Root crops, free land, and the wages of Wall Street sin in frontier Minnesota

Grand Rapids herald-review (Grand Rapids, Itasca County, Minn)

A Southern Judge's London Robbery & a Gentleman's Elaborate Courtship Con (Winnsboro, 1886)

The Fairfield news and herald (Winnsboro, S.C.)

A Wooden Leg, a Stolen Scalp & a Historian's Accidental Scandal: Maine's Oddest News Day (1876)

The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.)

When Hawaii Feared a Killer Comet (And Laughed About It): A Pacific Island Paper from 1866

The Pacific commercial advertiser (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands)

The Secret Telegrams That Could Have Ended the Civil War Early

The Bedford gazette (Bedford, Pa.)

Lincoln's Party Turns Against Him: The 1864 Convention Call That Nearly Ended His Presidency

Cleveland morning leader (Cleveland [Ohio])

Britain Almost Recognized the Confederacy—Here's How Parliament Stopped It (Feb. 24, 1863)

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

Inside the Last Days of Confederate New Orleans: When the City Still Had Time to Arm (Feb. 1862)

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

The Day Before the Storm: What Nashville's Businessmen Were Buying and Selling in February 1861

Nashville union and American (Nashville, Tenn.)

When Your Husband's Dead First Wife Won't Stop Texting: Life, Love & Séances in 1856

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

1846: How Portsmouth Competed With Railroads—and Why Dr. Smith's Pills Went Viral

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