On This Day: July 28 — Century Dispatch

Death Watch in Springfield: How a "Second Trial" Might Save Sacco and Vanzetti

Springfield weekly Republican (Springfield, Mass.)

1926: When an entire Ohio city fired all its cops and a bride discovered her 'doctor' husband was a fraud

New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)

1906: Mississippi Farmers Literally Set Their Roads on Fire (And It Worked!)

Macon beacon (Macon, Miss.)

The Populists Eat Themselves Alive: Inside the Telegrams That Broke a Movement (July 28, 1896)

The Wichita daily eagle (Wichita, Kan.)

Inside Mount Washington's 6,293-Foot Newspaper: Where Carriage Kings & Diplomats Summered

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

A Pay Inspector Fled to Chile With $20,000 in Gold—and Other Tales From Arizona Territory, 1876

Arizona weekly miner (Prescott, Ariz.)

Davis Accused of Lincoln's Murder: Congress Tightens Screws on the South (July 1866)

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

Grant Says 'Have Patience'—What He Told Lincoln's Governor About Winning the War

Cleveland morning leader (Cleveland [Ohio])

Colored Soldiers in the Fire: The 54th Massachusetts' Heroic Stand at Fort Wagner, July 1863

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

The Albany's Roster: How a 1,000-Name Manifest Told America About War—July 28, 1862

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

July 1861: Nashville's Last Peacetime Newspaper? A City Selling Coal Oil Lamps While the War Begins

Daily Nashville patriot (Nashville, Tenn.)

1856: New Orleans on the Eve—When a City's Commerce Blinded It to Coming War

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

July 1846: Congress Debates Soldier Pay While War Rages—and Lottery Tickets Still Cost $15

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

Inside Washington's Slave Market: The Stunning Contradiction of July 1836

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