On This Day: July 20 — Century Dispatch

A Dam Breaks, Delegates Head to Paris, and a Thief Leaves His Shoes Behind in Smyrna

Smyrna times (Smyrna, Del.)

1926: Tennis champion Helen Wills spills her secrets (while gangsters terrorize Ohio publishers)

The Elkins inter-mountain (Elkins, W. Va.)

1906: Feds Double Oregon Irrigation Funds While Russia Burns & Pirates Attack Ships

The Oregon mist (St. Helens, Columbia County, Or.)

When McKinley Finally Left Home: The 1896 Campaign That Changed Everything

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

1886: A Nebraska Newspaper's First Issue Reveals How Railroads, Soldiers & German Traders Shaped the Wild Stockyard Boom

South Omaha stockman (South Omaha, Neb.)

Can Maine Farmers Beat Philadelphia's Butter? Plus: The Hog Composting Secret Everyone's Talking About

The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.)

Pennsylvania Court Rules on Deserters' Voting Rights (1866): How a Single Decision Shaped Reconstruction

The Bedford gazette (Bedford, Pa.)

July 1865: Key Lincoln conspiracy witness fights back & federal troops deployed to mining strike

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

Wall Street Speculators Blamed for Wartime Hunger: A Brutal 1864 Editorial

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

War Turning Point: Morgan's Cavalry Shattered, Draft Law Enforced—July 1863 Marks Rebel Collapse

Chicago daily tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

How Lincoln's War Taxes Changed America Forever—And Why Columbus Became the Railroad Hub of the Union

Daily Ohio statesman (Columbus, Ohio)

One Day Before Bull Run: How a Southern Newspaper Pretended the War Wasn't Starting

Arkansas state gazette (Little Rock, Ark.)

July 1856: A Murder Trial, Mythology Lessons, and the Great Thermometer Debate That Split New York

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

"Out Upon All Such Humbuggery!" — How Congress Buried Tariff Fraud in Impossible Language (1846)

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

Washington's Breakfast Market: Coffee, Oysters & 400 People for Sale

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