On This Day: July 23 — Century Dispatch

Nevada's Booming Summer of 1927: 59% More Cars, New Airlines & Buick's Miraculous Headlights

Las Vegas age (Las Vegas, Nev.)

1926: When You Could 'Park' Your Husband and Buy Flour by Brand Name

Montgomery County sentinel (Rockville, Md.)

When Russian MPs Held Parliament in a Hotel Dining Room (Plus: The Indian School Engineer Who Got Rich Quick)

Albuquerque evening citizen (Albuquerque, N.M.)

"You'll Be Forced to Clean Your Own Cesspool": A Populist's Wild 1896 Case for Inflation

The Nebraska independent (Lincoln, Nebraska)

What America's Richest Did on Vacation: A Day on Mount Washington, 1886

Among the clouds (Mount Washington, N.H.)

Trapped Below Deck: The *Mohawk* Disaster That Exposed Gilded Age Excess (July 23, 1876)

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

New Orleans, 1866: When a Patent Medicine Ad Took Over the Front Page—And What It Reveals About Post-War America

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

The 92-year-old widow of Aaron Burr dies, taking Revolutionary secrets to her grave

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

Horace Greeley's Humiliating Peace Trap: How the Confederacy Fooled Lincoln's Trusted Editor

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

July 1862: Ohio Towns Reject the Draft—But Can They Raise 600,000 Soldiers Voluntarily?

Cleveland morning leader (Cleveland [Ohio])

Three Days After Bull Run: How the Union Plans to Strangle the South (With Exact Port Maps)

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

1856: When America Feared Catholics More Than War—And Parents Were Losing Control

Washington telegraph (Washington, Ark.)

War Money: How Polk Borrowed $10 Million to Fund the Mexican-American War (July 23, 1846)

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

Inside the Capital's Slave Market: What Washington's 1836 Newspaper Reveals About America's Contradiction

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