On This Day: April 24 — Century Dispatch

Lost 53 Years, Found at Last? The Charles Ross Letter That's Baffling America

The Montgomery advertiser (Montgomery, Ala.)

When 9,000 Boxing Fans Called BS on a Referee (Plus: The Governor Who Banned a Racist Movie)

The gazette (Cleveland, Ohio)

When Rain Became a Curse: 200K San Francisco Refugees Drenched While Maine Mill Town Burns

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

Scandal Rocks Washington: Government Officer Accused of Affair as Budget Blooms (April 24, 1886)

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

Arkansas's Fever Dream: Diamonds, Tornados & the Desperate Hunt for Northern Settlers (April 1876)

Weekly Arkansas gazette (Little Rock, Ark.)

One Year After Appomattox: Cholera, Congress Deadlock, and River Pirates—April 24, 1866

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

Stolen Confederate Letters Reveal: Starving Soldiers, $20,000 Weddings & a Woman's Riot in Richmond (1863)

The weekly pioneer and Democrat (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory)

When Kansas Published Delinquent Taxes Instead of War News: A Civil War Newspaper's Priorities

White Cloud Kansas chief (White Cloud, Kan.)

War Started 2 Weeks Ago—But NYC Was Still Selling Farms and Hiring Servants

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

Evansville Wants Your Dollar: A Frontier Town's Wild $30,000 Lottery—1856

The Evansville daily journal (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.])

Washington Real Estate Boom—The Day Before War (April 24, 1846)

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