On This Day: March 5 — Century Dispatch

Madagascar Cyclone Kills 500 | American Shot Dead in Mexico | U.S. Braces for War?

New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)

1926: When a $83 Revival Scam Fooled an Entire Maryland Town

Montgomery County sentinel (Rockville, Md.)

65-foot waves devour Pacific islands while Kansas farmers get stiffed on sugar beets

The Topeka state journal (Topeka, Kansas)

Murder Verdict, Vigilante Wars & a Senator's Secret: Nebraska's 1896 Reckoning

The frontier (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.)

1886: Inside Congress's Battle Over Railroad Monopolies—and Why Washington's Department Stores Were Feuding Over Corsets

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

Secretary of War Caught Red-Handed: How Belknap's Wife Invented America's First Cabinet Scandal

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

One Year After the War Ends, America's Real Battle Begins—And a Governor Just Called the President a Demagogue

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

A Union Colonel's Chilling Testimony: What He Witnessed Starving in Richmond's Libby Prison

Cleveland morning leader (Cleveland [Ohio])

Panic Over the Draft, Ironclads Captured: What Lincoln's War Looks Like in March 1863

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

When a Soldier Cuts Off His Own Fingers: A Confederate Newspaper's Grim March 1862

Washington telegraph (Washington, Ark.)

The Last Parade: How New Orleans Celebrated While Its Government Joined the Confederacy (March 5, 1861)

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

When New Orleans Ruled America: A Port City's Last Booming Day (1856)

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

When the South Fought Federal 'Pork': A Fiery 1846 Speech on $1.4M Worth of Sectional Rage

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

A Virginia Newspaper's Brutal Honesty: How Slavery Was Sold Like Grain and Mills

Richmond enquirer (Richmond, Va.)