On This Day: May 8 — Century Dispatch

Hoover Says the Levees Will Hold—But He's Got Questions. Plus: Texas Valley Challenges the Nile.

Brownsville herald (Brownsville, Tex.)

The Professor, the Whiskey Candy & the Sparrow That Stopped a Race Car

New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)

1906: Bates Gets a Windfall, Congress Celebrates Cannon's 70th & San Francisco's Tragedy Echoes in Maine

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

Cleveland's Pension Gamble: How the President Defied Predictions by Actually Reading Bills

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

Arkansas Claims 'Redemption' as Democrats Organize for 1876—But At What Cost?

Weekly Arkansas gazette (Little Rock, Ark.)

One Year After Appomattox: Telegraph to China, Parliamentary Chaos in London, and Why Americans Are Obsessed With Hair...

Baltimore daily commercial (Baltimore, Md.)

Saint Paul Newspaper Accuses War Committee of Sabotaging McClellan's Reputation—Here's the Evidence (1863)

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

"Beast Butler" Takes Control: How a Newspaper Became a Weapon of Occupation—New Orleans, May 1862

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

A River Town's Last Commercial Hurrah: Shreveport, Louisiana, May 1861

The south-western (Shreveport, La.)

Inside the Port That Powered America: New Orleans in 1856 (5 Years Before Everything Changed)

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

Should Washington Give Illinois Free Land for Railroads? Congress Debates (May 8, 1846)

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