On This Day: May 25 — Century Dispatch

Lindbergh Turns Down $300K—And Dole Just Started a New Aviation Race

New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)

1926: Prison Break Carnage, Hoover's Alabama Visit & The $150K Pythian Palace

The Montgomery advertiser (Montgomery, Ala.)

1906: When San Francisco's dead reached 498 and a mountain became a lake overnight

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

A Woman Scorned, a Mill Town in Crisis: Inside Maine's Messiest Love Triangle (and Economic Collapse)

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

170 Labor Leaders Converge in Cleveland: The May 1886 Convention That Would Change America

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

How Maine Farmers Turned Chickens Into Orchard Guardians (and Why the Great Pyramid Just Got 1,770 Years Older)

The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.)

Congress Debates America's Future While Maximilian Falls in Mexico: What May 25, 1866 Reveals About Reconstruction

Baltimore daily commercial (Baltimore, Md.)

1865: How to pay off $3 billion in war debt (and a deadly cheese delivery)

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

The Confederacy's Final Gamble: How Desperate War Orders Reveal a Dying Nation (May 1864)

Washington telegraph (Washington, Ark.)

How a Small-Town Illinois Paper Weaponized Poetry Against War Dissenters (May 1863)

Canton weekly register (Canton, Ill.)

May 1862: When Ohio Mothers Read Browning's Plea—And Understood Every Word

Daily Ohio statesman (Columbus, Ohio)

Virginia Braces for Battle: Why the North Thinks It's Already Won (May 1861)

Springfield weekly Republican (Springfield, Mass.)

20,000 New Yorkers Roar for War: May 1846's Massive Pro-Mexico Rally That Forged a Nation's Fate

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