On This Day: July 21 — Century Dispatch

How $50,000 and a Vanishing Lobster Revealed 1927's Hidden Anxieties

Springfield weekly Republican (Springfield, Mass.)

1926: Alaska's Big Dig, A Mayor's Brawl, and the Evangelist Who Vanished

The Alaska daily empire (Juneau, Alaska)

1906: Hawaiian Dam Could Cause 'Johnstown Disaster' While Political Machine Wars Rage

The Hawaiian star (Honolulu [Oahu])

"That Woman Wanted GOLD": How One Small-Town Nebraska Paper Captured the Free Silver Panic of 1896

The North Platte semi-weekly tribune (North Platte, Neb.)

How a Railroad President's Secretary Won a Widow's Gravel Bank (by Marrying Her)

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

Arizona Territory Goes Wild for the Centennial: Barbecues, All-Night Dances & A Mystery Lake

Arizona weekly miner (Prescott, Ariz.)

One Year After Appomattox: How the South Was Already Rewriting the Civil War

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

July 21, 1865: 'She was innocent' — Shocking deathbed confession about Lincoln's assassination

The Bedford gazette (Bedford, Pa.)

July 21, 1864: A Rebel's Last Gasp Before Atlanta Falls—Semmes Sinks, Sherman Circles

The daily Chattanooga rebel (Griffin, Ga.)

New York City Burns: A Confederate Paper's Gleeful Coverage of America's Bloodiest Riots (July 1863)

Memphis daily appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)

The Day Rebels Routed a Union Garrison—And Locals Cheered from Their Doorways

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

Three Days After Bull Run, Nashville's Newspaper Was Still Selling Land in Illinois—Here's Why

Nashville union and American (Nashville, Tenn.)

Factory Villages, Canning Jars & Spindle Dreams: What Worcester's Boom Town Reveals About Pre-Civil War America

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

How Polk's Land Auctions, Navy Contracts & Medical Schools Reveal 1846 America in Expansion Mode

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

Inside a Slave-Trading Capital: What Washington's July 1836 Classifieds Reveal About America Before the Panic

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