On This Day: August 4 — Century Dispatch

Springfield's Tax Rate Drops—But Is New England's Prosperity a Mirage?

Springfield weekly Republican (Springfield, Mass.)

When getting rescued required spinning a wheel and bootleggers were banned from tribal councils

Grand Rapids herald-review (Grand Rapids, Itasca County, Minn)

The Day Russia's Last Chance Died (Plus Maine's 6 MPH Speed Traps)

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

Did He or Didn't He? A Maine Death Mystery Still Haunts Kennebec County (1896)

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

A Danish Newspaper's Dark Mirror: Lynching, Cholera, and a Japanese Prince Visit Rural Nebraska

Stjernen (St. Paul, Howard County, Nebraska)

An 1876 Prospector's Wild Tale (and Why Prescott's Newspaper Wasn't Buying It)

Arizona weekly miner (Prescott, Ariz.)

When a Raw Ham Killed a Family: The 1866 Trichiniasis Outbreak That Changed American Food Safety

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

1865: 'Nine out of ten freed slaves will vote with their former masters' — Governor's shocking prediction

The Bedford gazette (Bedford, Pa.)

Atlanta Falling: How a General's Dinner Saved the Union Army from Disaster

Weekly national intelligencer (Washington [D.C.])

Vermont's Heroes at Fort Wagner: Raw Combat Reporting from the Civil War's Turning Point (Aug. 4, 1863)

Green-Mountain freeman (Montpelier, Vt.)

Desperate Orders: Inside the Confederacy's August 1862 Conscription Crisis—When Volunteers Ran Out

Memphis daily appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)

Nashville, August 1861: When a City Sold Patent Medicine & Railroad Dreams While a Nation Fell Apart

Nashville union and American (Nashville, Tenn.)

"Twin Relics of Barbarism": Inside the 1856 Republican Platform That Predicted Civil War

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

The Day America Embraced Free Trade (and Won't Again for 70 Years): The Walker Tariff Passes, August 4, 1846

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

The Day America's Capital Advertised the Sale of 100 Human Beings—Right Alongside Oyster Soup

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