On This Day: February 27 — Century Dispatch

The Last American Century: 93-Year-Old Lawyer Dies as Nation Turns Against the Klan

The Montgomery advertiser (Montgomery, Ala.)

1926: When $5,000 oil stock schemes and magic invisibility caps made front-page comedy gold

The Milwaukee leader (Milwaukee, Wis.)

Coal Crisis in Gold Rush Alaska & Castro's War Threats: Feb 27, 1906

The Nome tri-weekly nugget (Nome, Alaska)

One-Armed Veteran Blown From Train During Maine's Worst Storm—And Survives (Feb. 27, 1886)

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

Seven Masked Pirates Terrorize New York Harbor—Captain Shot Point-Blank, Crew Imprisoned

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

While Louisiana's Congress Debated War Relief, the Greatest Circus on Earth Came to Town (Feb. 27, 1866)

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

Feb 27, 1865: 400 Union prisoners found as 'skeletons' in fallen Wilmington

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

How a Secret Pentagon Map Nearly Broke U.S. Currency (And Why Portland Harbor Charts Won the Civil War)

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

Connecticut, 1863: A Newspaper Caught Between Harsh Mothers and Harsher Truths About Slavery

The Willimantic journal (Willimantic, Conn.)

A Lonely English Clerk, a Russian Countess, and an Invitation to the Palace—Worcester, 1862

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

New Orleans on the Brink: Fashion, Cotton, and the First Taste of Confederacy (Feb. 27, 1861)

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

Before the Storm: New Orleans at Peak Prosperity (1856)

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

"Cannon's Mouth": How Congress Nearly Started a War Over Oregon in 1846

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

February 1836: When a Slave Trader's Ad Sat Beside Baltimore Hotel Listings

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