On This Day: June 4 — Century Dispatch

Lindbergh Lands in England, But a West Virginia Justice of the Peace Shot a Fed—and Lost in Court

The West Virginia news (Ronceverte, W. Va.)

The Day a 100-Year-Old Jockey Won $800 and Congress Survived a 14-Hour Filibuster

New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)

1906: Worker's brain exposed in electrical accident, sues for $30K

Orleans County monitor (Barton, Vt.)

A Chinese Cook, Broken Dishes & the Last Gasps of Snake Oil: June 1896 in Rural Nebraska

The Sioux County journal (Harrison, Nebraska)

Treasury Secretary Manning Exits, Military Reshuffled—and One Elderly Scholar Lost His Paycheck to Bureaucracy

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

1876: When New York's Elite Raced Four-Horse Coaches to the Track (With Live Musical Accompaniment)

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

General O'Neill's Army Flees Fort Erie: Inside the Failed Fenian Invasion of Canada

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

June 1865: Confederate VP in secret prison cell & Chicago's $100 dead animal fines

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

Forty Soldiers Lost at Sea as Chaplain Heroically Swims for His Life—Plus the Stunning Story of Union Troops Whipping...

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

A Tennessee Slaveholder Defends Emancipation: The War's Turning Point, Explained

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Richmond Under Siege: Union Victory at Last—3,600 Rebels Captured (June 4, 1862)

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

A Washerwoman's Dollar: How One Woman's Conscience Pierced the Civil War's Opening Act

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

When States Ran Lotteries: Inside Washington D.C.'s June 1856 Gambling Boom

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

Congress Fears Britain Will Join Mexico's War—And Holmes Warns of Something Worse Ahead

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

Slaves for Sale, Seeds for Speculation: A Day in 1836 Washington

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