On This Day: June 7 — Century Dispatch

A New York Pastor's Homecoming Sermon & the Lost Art of Declamation (Newberry, 1927)

The herald and news (Newberry S.C.)

When Congress Got Physical: The 1926 Inkwell Incident That Made Headlines

The Elkins inter-mountain (Elkins, W. Va.)

1906: A suspicious death in Omaha, political rallies, and why everyone wanted to join the Modern Woodmen

The Loup City northwestern (Loup City, Neb.)

A Bicycle-Obsessed British Minister, Missing Royal Corpses, and the Sudan Scandal That Made Parliament Squirm

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

When Oleomargarine Split the Senate: Inside 1886 Washington's Strangest Debates

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

Congressman Blaine Takes the Floor in His Own Defense—And It Gets Heated Fast (1876)

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

Johnson Issues War Warning: Irish-American Fenians Massing on Canadian Border—and Jeff Davis's Trial Just Got Delayed

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

June 1865: Presidential order rebuilds the Union while explosion kills 200 in Mobile

The south-western (Shreveport, La.)

A Maine Minister's Fiery Rebuttal to Canadian Doubters—June 1864

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

1863: When Mobs Threatened Newspapers & Democrats Debated Losing the Union | Chicago Tribune

Chicago daily tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

How a Scottish Gamekeeper Became Japan's Interpreter to Napoleon III—Plus Civil War Chaos at Yorktown

The Placer herald (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.)

Stephen Douglas's Last Stand: The Speech That Couldn't Save the Union (Published Just Days After His Death)

The Bedford gazette (Bedford, Pa.)

1856: When Delaware Ran Four Lotteries at Once—and the Mail Route to Utah Cost Triple Your Pay for Being Late

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

A Doctor Calls Gout a Hoax, Plus a Shipwreck Curse (1846)

Sunday dispatch (New York [N.Y.])