On This Day: June 6 — Century Dispatch

Montgomery Burns: A $2.5M Catastrophe, Lindbergh's Baggage Nearly Doesn't Make It, and a Confederate Tablet Survives...

The Montgomery advertiser (Montgomery, Ala.)

1926: When a Swedish pilot dreamed of 50-passenger flights & Queen Marie quit cosmetic ads

The Montgomery advertiser (Montgomery, Ala.)

When salt wars and revenge shaped American markets (June 6, 1906)

The Topeka state journal (Topeka, Kansas)

1896: A Doctor's Desperate Plea to Save Poor Children—and Louisiana's Secret Sugar Boom

Lake Charles commercial (Lake Charles, Calcasieu Parish, La.)

Gladstone's Home Rule Gamble: Inside Parliament's Highest-Stakes Vote & the Secret Deal That Could Change Everything

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

A Maine Newspaper's Moral Crisis: When a Young Man Must Choose Between $1M and Love (1876)

Oxford Democrat (Paris, Me.)

Congress Debates Reconstruction While Pelicans Die & Men Eat 25 Eggs: The Baltimore Daily Commercial, June 1866

Baltimore daily commercial (Baltimore, Md.)

The day Johnson pardoned the South (but kept the rich rebels out) — June 6, 1865

Green-Mountain freeman (Montpelier, Vt.)

June 1864: Confederate Papers Declare Victory as Grant & Sherman Close In—A Week Before Everything Changed

Memphis daily appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)

The Secret to Union Victory? Inside the Navy's Desperate Scramble for Steam Engines (June 6, 1863)

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

Richmond Seems Doomed—But Rain May Have Saved the Rebellion (June 6, 1862)

New-York daily tribune (New-York [N.Y.])

Six weeks into the Civil War, Worcester papers were obsessed with one thing: who's the best shot in America?

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Gold Rush Fever & Second-Hand Furniture: Inside Booming New Orleans, June 1856

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

Two Prisoners Flee Puerto Rico's Puntilla Prison—The Hunt Begins (1846)

Gazeta de Puerto-Rico (San Juan, P.R.)

Lynchburg, 1836: When Spain's Civil War Divided Europe—and Virginia Merchants Got the Imported Goods

Lynchburg Virginian (Lynchburg [Va.])