On This Day: August 1 — Century Dispatch

Seven Die in Plane Crashes + Baby Falls 7 Stories & Survives: Aviation's Deadly Summer of 1927

Imperial Valley press (El Centro, Calif.)

1926: Assassination Plot Rocks Mexico While Baroness Breaks Suicide Pact in Miami

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

1906: Kansas Town Plans Epic Railroad Homecoming (Plus: Pet Monkey Tragedy & Watermelon Vandals)

Barbour County index (Medicine Lodge, Kan.)

The Day the Democrats Imploded: Why Hill Backed a Third Ticket in 1896

The Dalles weekly chronicle (The Dalles, Or.)

Churchill vs. Gladstone: Britain Blinks on Ireland (August 1, 1886)

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

A Mysterious Manuscript in the Mill: How One Schoolteacher Found Love in an 1847 Diary

Oxford Democrat (Paris, Me.)

Blood & Light: The Day America Split Over Black Rights—And Connected to Europe via Cable

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

1865: When Cross-Dressing Soldiers Fought Demon Rum in Maine

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

"Lay Me Down, Boys, and Save the Flag"—Lee Invades Pennsylvania (July 30, 1864)

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Union Forces Capture Confederate Colonel as War Surges Forward—July 1863 Dispatches

Daily State sentinel (Indianapolis, Ind.)

Lincoln's Secret Negotiation With Slaveholding States—A Last Chance for Compromise (August 1, 1862)

The Bedford gazette (Bedford, Pa.)

Three Months Into the Civil War: How One Indiana Town Prepared for Battle (Hint: With Oysters and Gilt Buttons)

The Evansville daily journal (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.])

"Twin Monsters & Roasted Families": How Immigrants' Blood Became 1856's Election Weapon

The Bedford gazette (Bedford, Pa.)

"Our Title is Established Beyond Controversy": A Congressman Rewrites History to Justify War—June 1846

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