On This Day: April 17 — Century Dispatch

Texas Declares War on Minnesota Over 'Sultry South' Insult—Plus: Will This Railroad Save Brownsville?

Brownsville herald (Brownsville, Tex.)

1926: Canadian Lawyer Destroys Prohibition Compromise & 12-Year-Old Hobo Spills Secrets

The Indianapolis times (Indianapolis [Ind.])

Murder Charges, Royal Imposters & Gatling Gun-Loud Engines: Maine's Wild Week in 1906

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

Thirty Years of Marriage, One Young Death: Inside a Nebraska Town's Joy and Sorrow (April 17, 1896)

The Nebraska advertiser (Nemaha City, Neb.)

Inside Cleveland's Machine: How a Woman Nearly Blinded Her Rival with Acid—and Why Bureaucrats Celebrated a Quiet...

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

Arkansas Reels from River Floods While Salt Lake City Powder Magazines Explode—April 17, 1876

Weekly Arkansas gazette (Little Rock, Ark.)

Reconstruction Erupts in Congress—Senators Trade Blows One Year After Appomattox

Baltimore daily commercial (Baltimore, Md.)

Murder at Sea: The Shot That Sparked a Diplomatic Showdown Between America and Britain

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

A Soldier's Warning from Florida: 'We'd Rather Stay 10 Years Than Disgrace Ourselves' (Connecticut, 1863)

The Willimantic journal (Willimantic, Conn.)

Inside McClellan's Yorktown: When Union Soldiers Sang While Shells Fell—April 1862

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

Five Days Into the War: New Orleans Mobilizes While Betting Everything on Cotton | April 17, 1861

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

When New Orleans Ruled America: A Business Directory from the Cotton Empire's Glory Days (1856)

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

How a Yankee Cobbler's Sign Board Started a Trade War (Plus: Slidell's Secret Mexico Mission)

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