On This Day: May 27 — Century Dispatch

Racing, KKK Falls, and Why a Swiss Woman Was Desperate for Beer: May 27, 1927

The Indianapolis times (Indianapolis [Ind.])

1926: Coast Guard Captures Rum-Runners & Broadway's Bathtub Party Scandal Ends in Conviction

New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)

The $48,000 Banker, Russia's Defiant Parliament & Other Tales from 1906

The Montgomery advertiser (Montgomery, Ala.)

Bridge Collapse Kills 55 on the Queen's Birthday—Plus: Prohibition Party Explodes Over Free Silver in Pittsburgh

Waterbury Democrat (Waterbury, Conn.)

May 27, 1886: When a Michigan Weekly Newspaper Was the Heart of Town Life—Drama, Sheep Shearing & Real Estate Schemes

Weekly expositor (Brockway Centre, Mich.)

Arizona's Territorial Paper Covers the 1876 Centennial: 100 Years of America on Display in Philadelphia

Arizona citizen (Tucson, Pima County, A.T. [i.e. Ariz.])

War Is Coming to Europe—and America Is Watching (May 27, 1866)

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

May 27, 1865: Confederate General Plans Escape to Mexico as Jeff Davis Faces Treason Trial

Daily State sentinel (Indianapolis, Ind.)

A Soldier's Graphic Account of the Petersburg Offensive—Plus the Day the Government Arrested Two Major Newspapers

Bedford inquirer (Bedford, Pa.)

The Day Lincoln Exiled His Enemy to the Confederacy (And They Didn't Want Him)

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Banks in Retreat: How Jackson's 17,000 Men Panicked the North (May 1862)

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

Bonnets, Boots & Bondage: Richmond's Last Normal Day (May 1861)

Richmond daily Whig (Richmond, Va.)

May 27, 1856: Inside the Merchant Empire That Built New Orleans—Before It All Burned

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

Congress Teeters on War with Britain Over Oregon—One Alabama Democrat Begs for Calm (May 27, 1846)

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

May 1836: How Americans Went 45 Hours From Petersburg to NYC (And What They Left Behind)

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