On This Day: July 7 — Century Dispatch

1927: When Cars Became More Dangerous Than Firecrackers (and Massachusetts Refused to Tax Gas)

Springfield weekly Republican (Springfield, Mass.)

When a rescued submarine crashed 3 miles from safety (and other 1926 mishaps)

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

1906: When Cotton Stalks Were Going to Save the South (Spoiler: They Didn't)

Macon beacon (Macon, Miss.)

The Democratic Party's Last Day Before Chaos: July 7, 1896

The Wichita daily eagle (Wichita, Kan.)

The Hidden Story Behind 'The Star-Spangled Banner': How a Lawyer's Desperate Night Created America's Song

The Louisiana Democrat (Alexandria, La.)

"The Country Capable of All That Has Been Prophesied": A Freighter's Verdict on Arizona's Mining Future (1876)

Arizona weekly miner (Prescott, Ariz.)

1866: A California Paper's Savage Attack on Tennessee's Radical Governor—and Why It Matters

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

1865: When Tiny Weevils Nearly Starved a Nation (And Presidential Horse Drama)

The Bedford gazette (Bedford, Pa.)

The Alabama Goes Down: How a British Yacht's Daring Rescue of a Confederate Captain Nearly Sparked an International...

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

GETTYSBURG VICTORY CLAIMED (But Vicksburg Falls & Lee's Retreat Begins)—Inside the South's Last Days of Confidence

Semi-weekly standard (Raleigh, N.C.)

Richmond Saved: McClellan's Army Retreats to the James River in 100-Year-Old Dispatch from the Bloodiest Week of the...

Cleveland morning leader (Cleveland [Ohio])

Nashville, July 1861: How a City Sold Land Schemes and Snake Oil While Arming for War

Nashville union and American (Nashville, Tenn.)

1856 Evansville: When a Newspaper Was Basically an Amazon Catalog (With Rhyming Grocers)

The Evansville daily journal (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.])

When Congress Nearly Failed: The Tariff Meltdown of 1846—and Why Western Democrats Were Furious

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