On This Day: May 18 — Century Dispatch

Golden Anniversary & New Post Office: Grand Rapids Looks Forward in 1927

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

1926: Drunk sailors, a pistol-packing housewife, and the world's fastest real estate deal

Brownsville herald (Brownsville, Tex.)

When funeral strikes delayed burials & China's registration crisis began 🏛️

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

Bicycle Pants & Broken Records: Maine's Spring of Ambition (1896)

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

Paris Sends Frances Folsom's Scandalous Trousseau—And Washington Holds Its Breath

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

Missouri's Hidden Mountains: Why This State Thought It Would Supply America With Iron for 200 Years (It Didn't)

Saint Mary's beacon (Leonard Town, Md.)

One Year After Lee's Surrender: The South's Churches Voluntarily Rejoin the Union—and Rebuild from Rubble

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

The Confederate Turncoat Who Saved 4,000 Lives & The Secret Origins of American Music

Litchfield enquirer (Litchfield, Conn.)

Governor Vetoes His Own Pay Raise (1864): A Veto That Still Matters

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Grant's Mississippi Gamble Works—And the North Holds Its Breath (May 1863)

Chicago daily tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

Nine Enslaved Men Stole a Gunboat Under Fort Sumter's Guns—And Won It for the Union

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

The Last Ordinary Day: What Little Rock's Newspapers Looked Like in May 1861

Arkansas state gazette (Little Rock, Ark.)

A Time Capsule of Daily Life: What Americans Asked Newspapers in 1856

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

Horace Greeley Destroys a Governor Over Rum, Liquor, and Hypocrisy (May 1846)

New-York daily tribune (New-York [N.Y.])

Railroad, Rare Books & A Russian Diamond Ring: What Was Selling in Washington, 1836

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