On This Day: April 20 — Century Dispatch

How a Minnesota County Escaped Debt Spiral in 1927—And What It Cost

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

1926: When Car Thieves Packed Brass Knuckles and Mayors Wore Gold Badges

New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)

1906: When Oregon Boosters Met Royal Weddings and Lynch Mobs

The Oregon mist (St. Helens, Columbia County, Or.)

McKinley Surges Past Reed While Burglars Kill a Grocer: 1896's Messiest Week

The record-union (Sacramento, Calif.)

Chinese Diplomats in American Dress, Bond Calls, and Why the President Was Smiling (April 20, 1886)

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

Two Cousins, One Crown, Impossible Hearts: A Colonial Love Triangle on the Eve of Revolution

The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.)

Eight Dead in Fiery Mystery: The Wells Fargo Explosion That Left San Francisco in Ruins

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

April 20, 1865: A Nation Buries Lincoln as Johnson Promises to Finish the War

New-York daily tribune (New-York [N.Y.])

Earthquake Panic in San Francisco: Half-Shaved Men, Englishmen Screaming for Ladders, and One Boy's 4-Foot Hawks

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Inside the Navy Yard That Built the War: Philadelphia's Ironclad Secrets (April 1863)

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

1862: A Confederate Editor Warns—Sacrifice Liberty to Fight for Liberty, and You've Already Lost

Memphis daily appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)

Lincoln's Message to Virginia: The Letter That Ended Peace and Started a War (April 20, 1861)

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

A Nation Splitting in Two: What New Yorkers Were Asking About in April 1856

New-York dispatch (New York [N.Y.])

When Congress Taxed Chickens but Not Banks: 1846's Fiery Fight Over Money & Power

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

1836: When Life Insurance Was Radical—and Slave Traders Advertised Next to Poetry

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