On This Day: May 20 — Century Dispatch

A 92-Year-Old's Memory of the Church That Nearly Caused a Public Hanging—Plus What Happened to Its Steeple

Putnam patriot (Putnam, Conn.)

1926: When Maine's Governor Said Yes to a 20,000-Person KKK Rally

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

1906: When ambulances crashed into crowds and forests burned entire towns

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

Spain Threatens War Over Cuba—And the U.S. Treasury Is Hemorrhaging Gold (May 20, 1896)

The Dalles weekly chronicle (The Dalles, Or.)

How Maine Mourned the Civil War 23 Years Later—and Why a South American Plant Threatened the Rum Trade

The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.)

Augusta, Maine 1876: Revolvers, Liniment, and Life-Size Photo Portraits—Inside a Centennial Year Newspaper

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

Lost Children, Stolen Horses, Forged Checks: The Desperate Side of 1866 New York

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

May 1865: 'Has This War Paid?' — A Doctor's Answer & $1,000 for an Old Coin

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

A Connecticut Town's Hidden Stories: Skeleton Skirts, Suicide, and Twelve Photographs for a Dollar

The Willimantic journal (Willimantic, Conn.)

The 54th Massachusetts Marches to War—But a Wounded Soldier Begs Unnoticed in Boston

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

Bullet-Proof Vests, Runaway Slaves, and McClellan's Stalled Invasion: Memphis in May 1862

Memphis daily appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)

A Port City at Its Peak: New Orleans in May 1856, Six Months Before Everything Changed

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

May 1846: When Bonnets Cost a Quarter and Doctors Sold 'Panacea' in Providence

Republican herald (Providence [R.I.])