On This Day: March 31 — Century Dispatch

Shotgun Attack on Italian Diplomat + 150,000 Coal Miners Walk Out at Midnight (March 31, 1927)

New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)

1926: FBI hits 1 million fingerprints, $10 hair waves, and a devastating newspaper fire

Le messager (Lewiston, Me.)

1906: Idaho Governor Offers Labor Unions Face-to-Face Meeting with Confessed Assassin

The labor world (Duluth, Minn.)

A Nebraska Shoe Store Closes, McKinley Wins the County, and a Brakeman Loses Both Legs—March 31, 1896

The North Platte semi-weekly tribune (North Platte, Neb.)

How a Spinster's Secret Charity Won Her a Husband (and Why Editors Were Writing Christmas Stories in December)

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

March 31, 1876: How Augusta, Maine Sold Hair Tonic, Revolvers, and Dreams of Respectability

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

Navy Ironclad vs. Irish Invaders: The Secret War America Wasn't Talking About (1866)

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

March 31, 1865: Sherman Arrives as Lee Launches His Last Desperate Gamble

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Should We Win the Civil War With Swords or Souls? A Washington Paper's Anguished Debate (1864)

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

March 1863: Union Musters Massive War Machine for Charleston as Britain Teeters on Recognizing the Confederacy

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Sherman Burns Jacksonville: When the Union Came South, Florida Learned the Cost of War

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

Lincoln Burns a Protest in Front of Guests—And Fort Sumter Is Being Abandoned (March 31, 1861)

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

A Capitol City Booming: Inside Washington's Real Estate Frenzy Six Months Before Everything Changed

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

Congress Throws a Trade War Party in D.C. (Plus a Free Black Carpenter Sails to Africa)

American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper (Baltimore, Md.)