On This Day: May 22 — Century Dispatch

🎹 The pianist who might topple Poland's strongman — and other mysteries from May 1926

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

May 22, 1906: Murder trial hinges on embalming fluid evidence, Marines head to Panama

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

Cyclone Devastation & McKinley's Rise: How 1896 Nebraska Faced Disaster and Political Upheaval

The Loup City northwestern (Loup City, Neb.)

Murder, Monopoly & Geronimo on the Run: May 1886 West in Chaos

Sacramento daily record-union (Sacramento [Calif.])

Corruption Scandal & Railroad Whistles: Arkansas in the Centennial Election Year (May 22, 1876)

Weekly Arkansas gazette (Little Rock, Ark.)

One Year After Appomattox: When London's Banks Crashed and America Sold Snake Oil

Baltimore daily commercial (Baltimore, Md.)

May 22, 1865: Jefferson Davis caught in dress and bonnet — 'those No. 13 calfskins' gave him away 👠

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

When Lincoln Arrested a Congressman for Speaking: The Vallandigham Affair Shocks the North (1863)

The Bedford gazette (Bedford, Pa.)

May 1862: While the Civil War Raged, This Connecticut Town Advertised Oysters and Dental Gold

Litchfield enquirer (Litchfield, Conn.)

May 1861: Inside a Southern Boomtown One Month Into the Civil War—When Shreveport Still Sold Luxury Goods

The south-western (Shreveport, La.)

Commerce Over News: Inside an 1856 Frontier Newspaper That Ignored the Coming Civil War

The Evansville daily journal (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.])

One Cent for Virtue: How a Washington Newspaper Bet Everything on Temperance and News (May 1846)

The Columbian fountain (Washington, D.C.)