On This Day: June 23 — Century Dispatch

Courtroom Execution, Prison Mutiny, and the Weather Delaying Byrd's Flight: June 23, 1927

The Montgomery advertiser (Montgomery, Ala.)

1926: Sheriff's Race Decided by 33 Votes & Boys Flip Dad's Buick in Minnesota

Grand Rapids herald-review (Grand Rapids, Itasca County, Minn)

1906: A 104-year-old Irishman votes, orphaned sisters become publishers, and Mississippi gets serious about farming

Macon beacon (Macon, Miss.)

A Mayor's Last Stand: How Waterbury Chose Corporate Trolleys Over City Treasure (1896)

Waterbury Democrat (Waterbury, Conn.)

A King Drowns, Oil Shakes Europe, and a Prairie Town Gets the News—Nebraska, 1886

Stjernen (St. Paul, Howard County, Nebraska)

A $32-Per-Ton Silver Mine, a Corruption Scandal, and 300 Mormons: Arizona in 1876

Arizona weekly miner (Prescott, Ariz.)

Johnson Vetoes the 14th Amendment (Again) — And a Thief Steals $1,500 in Broad Daylight

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

Grant visits West Point: Why 30% of Southern cadets stayed loyal to the Union

The weekly pioneer and Democrat (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory)

While the Civil War Raged, Maine Was Selling Paradise: The Summer Resorts Edition (1864)

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

Inside the Genius of Vicksburg: How a 'Lincoln Wagon' and Cotton Bales Won the Civil War

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

Love, Duty & Redemption: How a Maine Newspaper Serialized Morality During the Civil War

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

Two Months Into War, Nashville's Merchants Were Still Selling Miracle Cures & New Fashions

Nashville union and American (Nashville, Tenn.)

Inside a Booming 1856 Worcester: Patent Agents, Swiss Watches & the Race for American Style

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Oregon Betrayed: How a Campaign Promise Split America's Democrats in 1846

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

America's Transportation Wars: How 1836 Washington Competed to Move You Fastest

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