On This Day: August 3 — Century Dispatch

When Newspapers Lied About the Harvest: Minnesota Farmers Fight Back (August 3, 1927)

The Redwood gazette (Redwood Falls, Minn.)

1926: Family massacre, exploding moonshine stills, and why it took 200 experts for a radio call

The Bismarck tribune (Bismarck, N.D.)

1906: $133M in earthquake losses, guillotines retired, and a 90-bushel barley miracle 🌾

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

Moonlit Collision, Patriotic Fervor & Why Maine Boys Were Selling Patent Snake Oil in 1896

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

200 guests a night atop Mount Washington: inside America's first tourist explosion (1886)

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

Inside 1876 Maine Farms: Why One Tanner Refused Custom Orders (And Why That Matters Today)

The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.)

A Year After the War Ended, America's Leaders Were Warning of Another Rebellion | August 1866

The Bedford gazette (Bedford, Pa.)

1865: When war heroes begged for bread and housewives hunted deer in their bonnets

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Trapped in the Crater: The Union's Bloody Disaster at Petersburg—and Why It Didn't Break the War

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Children Torching Factories & Looting Davis's Library: America's Civil War Spirals Into Chaos (Aug. 3, 1863)

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

A Gunboat Named Terror Returns to New York With $1.6M in Captured Cargo—And a British Diplomat's Nightmare

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

One Month Into the Civil War, New York Asks About Grammar and Lost Love—Not Battlefields

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

When Did Voting Stop Being for Foreigners? An 1856 Legal Showdown

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

When Congress Fought Over Cotton: A Congressman's Rage Against Tariffs, 1846

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

Michigan Becomes a State (And Congress Finally Pays Robert Fulton's Heirs... 22 Years Late)

Republican herald (Providence [R.I.])