On This Day: April 28 — Century Dispatch

Babe Ruth Hasn't Even Stepped Up Yet—And Baseball's Already Breaking Records

Springfield weekly Republican (Springfield, Mass.)

The Day Gangsters Gunned Down a Prosecutor (& Other Tales from 1926)

New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)

1906: Senator Wants Income Tax to Stop Rockefeller, Russian Priest Maybe Dead

The labor world (Duluth, Minn.)

How Grant's Ghost Haunted America (and What a Mysterious $6,000 Check Reveals About Reconstruction)

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

Frontier Justice in Arizona: When Settlers Formed Militia Against Apache Raids (April 1876)

Arizona weekly miner (Prescott, Ariz.)

The Northern Pacific Derailed, Tennessee Expels Rebels, and a Steam Boiler Kills Two in Galena (April 28, 1866)

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

April 1865: When Confederate generals mourned Lincoln and surgeons performed miracles without anesthesia

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

1864: When a Smallpox Escapee Met Grant's Secret War Plans

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Lincoln Looks 'Thin and Careworn': A Vermont Soldier's Honest View from the Front Lines

Green-Mountain freeman (Montpelier, Vt.)

The Fall of New Orleans: How the Union's Greatest Prize Changed the War

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

Days Before Secession: Nashville Advertised Lamps & Slaves While History Turned

Daily Nashville patriot (Nashville, Tenn.)

April 1856: Worcester's Thriving Commercial Life on the Eve of National Collapse

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

April 28, 1846: A Woman Follows Her Husband Into War, Mormons Head West, and America Begins to Crack

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

Inside Early American Finance: When Life Insurance Cost $1 and Jefferson's Books Were Liquidated

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