On This Day: March 4 — Century Dispatch

A Clerk's Temptation: How 1927's Newspapers Spun Tales of Patriotism, Poverty & Betrayal

Montgomery County sentinel (Rockville, Md.)

The 100-year-old woman with 400 descendants (and other gems from 1926 West Virginia)

Pocahontas times (Huntersville, W. Va.)

When Kentucky grand juries banned card games and 'radium silk' was all the rage

The courier-journal (Louisville [Ky.])

Senate Votes 64-6 for Cuban Independence: America Declares Itself a World Power (March 4, 1896)

The Dalles weekly chronicle (The Dalles, Or.)

How Traveling Con Men Swindled 1880s Farmers — And Why One Dismissed the Newspaper Warning That Could Have Saved Him

Weekly expositor (Brockway Centre, Mich.)

Aunt Sophy's Brutal Birthday Advice—and Why This Mississippi Paper Called Out Lazy Daughters in 1876

The Copiahan (Hazlehurst, Copiah County, Miss.)

Congress at War Over the South's Return: Can a Broken Union Be Mended? (March 1866)

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

1864: Black Soldiers Slaughtered in Mississippi While Springfield's Factories Churn Out 1,000 Rifles Daily

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

How Lincoln's Government Invented Modern Banking (and Funded the Civil War)—March 4, 1863

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Emperors, Invasions & Secrets: March 1862 Reveals Europe's Daring Plot to Carve Up Mexico

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

March 4, 1861: Lincoln Takes Office While New York Sells Horses and Canary Birds—The Eerie Normalcy Before Civil War

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

March 1856: New Orleans' Last Booming Spring Before Everything Changed

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

A Frontier Town Watches History Unfold: Little Rock, 1846—Texas, Oregon, Mexico, and Dolley Madison's School

The Arkansas banner (Little Rock, Ark.)

Van Buren's Inauguration Day: A Front Page That Ignored Politics—and Reveals Everything About 1836

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