On This Day: June 22 — Century Dispatch

When a Fire Trapped Four, Convicts Sawed Through Walls, and America Dug In on Naval Guns

New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)

350,000 Catholics kneel in Chicago as polar hero Byrd races home for his medal

South Bend news-times (South Bend, Ind.)

When America's Biggest Meat Companies Got Busted (And Named Names)

The Topeka state journal (Topeka, Kansas)

The Day the Democratic Party Began to Break Apart: A Financier's Desperate Warning (June 22, 1896)

Waterbury Democrat (Waterbury, Conn.)

Senator Ingalls Explodes Over Drunken Naval Officer While Washington's Baseball Team Collapses—and the Comptroller Bans...

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

How Maine's 1876 Wheat Boom Predicted America's Global Food Dominance

The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.)

1866: When America Argued Over Everything—Coal Veins, Pensions for Black Soldiers, and the Largest Indian Peace Council...

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

The Cow That Marched with Sherman & Other Tales from 1865

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Cotton Confiscation & Collapsed Currency: The Confederacy's Last Gasp in June 1864

Washington telegraph (Washington, Ark.)

Lee's Invasion Begins: Inside the North, Confederate Deserters Flee, and the South Splinters (June 22, 1863)

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Cannon Fire and Scalding Steam: How a River Victory Cost 125 Union Sailors Their Lives

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

A Southern Newspaper's Eerie Calm: Why This June 1861 Gazette Shows Business as Usual—Even as the Civil War Begins

Arkansas state gazette (Little Rock, Ark.)

A Theatrical War Over $400/Week: How Laura Keene Lost Her Theatre (1856)

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

How America's First Revenue System Prevented Cheating (1846): A Senator Explains the Warehouse Wars

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

They Raised $100 to Save India's Soul: How One Missionary Fired Up Rural Maine in 1836

Morning star (Limerick, Me.)