On This Day: May 4 — Century Dispatch

1927: Minnesota County Debates Going Broke While Building a Menagerie with Lions and Tigers

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

May 4, 1926: Britain Paralyzed as 4 Million Strike, While Anti-Semitic Violence Erupts Across Romania

Yidishes ṭageblaṭṭ = The Jewish daily news (New York, N.Y.)

🔥 When San Francisco burned and Oregon's most wanted outlaw struck again

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

May 1886: When Maine Methodists Prayed While Workers Struck Across America

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

The Blue Glass Miracle Craze That Had America (and the White House) Convinced — 1876

The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.)

One Year After Appomattox: New Orleans Still Refuses to Call It Rebellion

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

🎭 While Lincoln's funeral train reaches Springfield, Washington theaters grapple with tragedy and entertainment

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

A Soldier's Epic: Three Years of War Told by a Lieutenant From the Front Lines in Alabama

The Ashland union (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio)

May 1863: Hooker's Master Plan to Trap Lee's Army (Plus: Ice Crushes Atlantic Steamer)

Chicago daily tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

Civil War Era Columbus: Stoves, Oysters & Army Supplies—When America Fought While Shopping

Daily Ohio statesman (Columbus, Ohio)

A Navy Officer's Desperate Plea: How One American Tried to Save 20,000 Starving Islanders in 1856

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

Britain Issues Thinly Veiled War Warning Over Oregon—One Month Before Peace Breaks Out

Arkansas state gazette (Little Rock, Ark.)

How a 3 A.M. Train Departure Reveals Early America's Logistics Genius (1836)

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