On This Day: March 17 — Century Dispatch

America Says 'No' to League Control—While Navy Gunships Guard Shanghai Shipyards

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

Death Watch at the White House: President's Father Dying as Townspeople Gather for News

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

🗳️ 1906: Heliotrope neckties, failed melons, and a nail-biter election in frontier Minnesota

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

Troops at the Capitol, Bodies in Cuba, and a Powder Keg in Kentucky—March 17, 1896

Waterbury Democrat (Waterbury, Conn.)

When Senators Debated Poker Rules and Teachers Yanked Kids Bald: A Night at Cleveland's White House (March 17, 1886)

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

Inside a Maine Newspaper From America's Centennial Year: When a Horse Liniment Was News

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

One Year After Lee's Surrender, the South Is Turning Violent—And Johnson Is Losing His Own Party

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

Grant Crushes War Profiteers & A Blind Woman Sees for the First Time

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

How Did Xerxes Feed 5 Million Soldiers? A Soldier Asks, and the Intelligencer Reveals Ancient Logistics Secrets

Weekly national intelligencer (Washington [D.C.])

The South Blew Up Its Own Warship Over a Wooden Fake—And It Gets Worse

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

New Orleans Goes Scorched Earth: The Day the South Decided to Burn Its Cotton Rather Than Feed the North

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

Three Weeks Before Fort Sumter: Nashville Pretends Everything Is Normal (It Isn't)

Nashville union and American (Nashville, Tenn.)

The $7.75 Million Ghost Debt: How the U.S. Finally Paid Off Texas—One Year Before It All Fell Apart

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

Bread, War & Escape: The Week Britain Remade Economics (and India Invaded Back)

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