On This Day: June 15 — Century Dispatch

Will Washington Lose to Baltimore? The Airport Race Against Time (Plus: Lindbergh's Next Move)

The Washington daily news (Washington, D.C.)

1926: Treasury Secretary Crushes Farm Relief as Diplomatic Crisis Erupts in Chile

Douglas daily dispatch (Douglas, Ariz.)

1906: Revolutionary Non-Slip Pumps and the Governor's Side Hustle

The aegis & intelligencer (Bel Air, Md.)

Hawaii's Thumbprint Controversy: How One Senator's Vote Killed a Voter Registration Law (June 15, 1896)

The Hawaiian star (Honolulu [Oahu])

1886 Sacramento: When Farmland Cost $45/Acre and Windmills Promised Gold

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

1876 Belfast: Maine Farmers Get the Brutal Truth About Bad Cows—and One 'Miracle' Crop

The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.)

1866: One Year After the Civil War, the North Confronts Its Own Slavery Secrets

The Bedford gazette (Bedford, Pa.)

When 'Uncle Amos' Built a Church for 6 Families (And Other 1865 Small-Town Schemes)

The Willimantic journal (Willimantic, Conn.)

Love Letters, Menageries & Civil War Politics: What Portland Read on June 15, 1864

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

A Woman Soldier, Carpetbaggers, and the South Under Siege: What One Southern Paper Really Thought About Union...

Memphis daily appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)

How Ohio's Railroads Kept America Moving During the Civil War (Plus: Victorian Fake Eyes)

Daily Ohio statesman (Columbus, Ohio)

June 1861: New York Churches Preach War While a Child's Prayer Feeds the Hungry

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

The Convention That Tried to Prevent Civil War: Inside the Frantic Fusion Politics of 1856

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

1846 Arkansas: When Burning Moscow Was the Hottest Summer Read

Arkansas state gazette (Little Rock, Ark.)

1836: A Slave Trader's Ad, a Pistol Knife, and America's Transportation Revolution

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