On This Day: May 17 — Century Dispatch

Plane Race Drama, Levee Catastrophe, and a Doomed Lobsterman: May 17, 1927

New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)

🎈 Dirigible Crosses North Pole, Bomb Rocks US Embassy & A $700 Government Puzzle

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

The Great Railroad Race of 1906 & Nebraska's Mysterious 'Soap Hill'

The frontier (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.)

Britain's African Fever: The Imperial Gamble That Would Redraw the Map (And Anger the French)

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

Is the President Marrying the Daughter or the Mother? Washington Society Gossips in Scandal (May 17, 1886)

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

Inside Augusta's Centennial Year: When Fresh Halibut Cost a Dime and Your Printer Could Deliver Oysters Free

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

1866: Vienna Suicide Epidemic, Cuban Revolution Brewing, and 'Extra Billy's' Loyal Ex-Slave

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

May 17, 1865: $5,000 bounty placed on Confederate governor as Tennessee seeks revenge

Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator (Knoxville, Tenn.)

How Vermont Railroaders Ran the West While the Wilderness Burned: May 1864

Green-Mountain freeman (Montpelier, Vt.)

"Almost naked, barefoot on the prairie": A mother's desperate escape from the Minnesota massacres

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

When a Senator Accused a Colleague of Treason on the Senate Floor (May 1862)

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

A City at War: New Orleans Mobilizes in May 1861—Military Orders, Bounties, and Business as Usual

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

May 17, 1856: Atlantic Steamships, Western Land Bounties & a Nation Holding Its Breath

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

Argentina's Dictator Blamed for 22,000+ Deaths—And the World Does Nothing (May 17, 1846)

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

Patent Medicine Fever: How Cincinnati Sold Miracles (and Bricks) in 1836

The Daily Cincinnati Republican, and commercial register (Cincinnati, Ohio)