On This Day: August 7 — Century Dispatch

100 Years Today: Sacco-Vanzetti's Execution Sparked Global Riots—Plus a Dentist Got Arrested for Bombing NYC Subways

The Cordele dispatch (Cordele, Georgia)

1,000 Men Battle Maine's Burning Forests as Governor Weighs Total Woods Ban

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

Murder Mystery, Marching Soldiers & a 225-Mile Balloon Ride: Maine's Wild Tuesday in 1906

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

Japan's Steamships, Britain's Naval Panic, and Why 6 People in Chicago Tried to End It All (Aug 7, 1896)

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

How Harvard Men Once Sat Women in Their Laps on Buses (and Other 1886 Government Secrets)

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

August 7, 1876: Little Rock Democrats Nominate Their Slate—And Plot to Take Back Congress

Weekly Arkansas gazette (Little Rock, Ark.)

1865: The Atlantic Cable, Drunken Rebel Generals, and America's Messy Peace

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

Spies, Conspirators & Cannonfire: August 1864's Explosive Secrets Exposed

Chicago daily tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

Windham's Finest Hour: A Connecticut Soldier's Letter from the Cannons of Fort Marshall, 1863

The Willimantic journal (Willimantic, Conn.)

On the Brink at Vicksburg: How a Naval Commander's Caution Might Cost the Union Everything

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

August 1861: A Confederate Newspaper Still Selling French Wine & Northern Guns—One Month After Fort Sumter

The south-western (Shreveport, La.)

A Democrat's Desperate Defense: Inside the 1856 Feud Over Slavery That Split a Party

Washington sentinel (City of Washington [D.C.])

When Doctors Got Desperate: How a Smallpox Scare Turned Baltimore Physicians Into Competing Showmen (1846)

American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper (Baltimore, Md.)