On This Day: July 11 — Century Dispatch

KKK Leader's 'Black Box' Exposes $2,500 Bribe to Indiana Governor—and a Divorce Lawyer Gets His Own Comeuppance

New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)

When the President couldn't catch fish and a killer said he'd rather hang 🎣⚖️

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

The English Lord Who Swindled Salt Lake City (Then Vanished)

Deseret evening news (Great Salt Lake City [Utah])

Inside the Convention That Created William Jennings Bryan: July 1896

The Dalles weekly chronicle (The Dalles, Or.)

Gladstone's Crushing Defeat Reshapes Britain—and Bismarck Has a Brutal Message for London

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

A Maine Captain's Haunting Account: How One Civil War Company Was Erased, Man by Man

Oxford Democrat (Paris, Me.)

Arizona's 1866 Declaration: How a Territorial Speech Rewrote Frontier History—and Erased Its Actual Heroes

Arizona miner (Fort Whipple, Ariz.;Prescott, Ariz.)

July 1865: Assassin's final words, Confederate revenge killings, and 109° heat wave

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

War, Opera & Fury: Cleveland Seethes Over Escaped Rebel Captain Semmes (July 1864)

Cleveland morning leader (Cleveland [Ohio])

Lee Trapped: How the North's Cavalry Stopped History's Greatest Escape (July 11, 1863)

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

A Bridegroom's Journey, a Fallen Woman's Redemption—and War Creeping Into Maryland (July 1862)

Montgomery County sentinel (Rockville, Md.)

Two Weeks Into the War: How New York Mobilized (And What They Were Reading About It)

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

Thriving in Secrets: New Orleans Insurance Profits Just Before the Storm (1856)

New Orleans daily crescent ([New Orleans, La.])

A Penny Press Pioneer: Inside Washington's Newest Temperance Newspaper (1846)

The Columbian fountain (Washington, D.C.)

July 1836: The Month America Bet Big on Canals, Bathing, and Indian Toothache Cures

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