On This Day: August 10 — Century Dispatch

Georgia's Peach Disaster = Delaware's Jackpot: Inside the Farm Boom of August 1927

Smyrna times (Smyrna, Del.)

When Soviet Revolution Rumors Flew & A Baron Fell Into the Sea

Yidishes ṭageblaṭṭ = The Jewish daily news (New York, N.Y.)

1906: A Kentucky town bets its future on a $5,000 gamble (and former feuding families make peace)

The Big Sandy news (Louisa, Ky.)

Escapes, ball gowns & 800 steamer passengers: Inside Maine's glittering summer of 1896

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

How One Angry President Demanded Mexico Release a Jailed American—And Why It Almost Went to War

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

How One Cow Taught 1876 Maine Farmers to Prune Better (Plus: Why Russia Lost the Wheat Wars)

The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.)

One Year After Appomattox: Western Forts Burning, Eastern Conventions Feuding, Russia Courting America

The Evansville journal (Evansville, Ind.)

1865: When Connecticut families scattered west & libraries were only open twice a week

The Willimantic journal (Willimantic, Conn.)

Farragut's Impossible Victory Seals Mobile Bay—and Maybe Lincoln's Reelection

The evening telegraph (Philadelphia [Pa.])

A Battlefield Hero Returns Home: Col. Chamberlain's Remarkable August 1863 Appearance in Portland

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

1862: America's First Draft Begins in 10 Days—Panicked New Yorkers Flood the Dispatch With Desperate Questions

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

A Bootmaker, His Bullfinch, and Broadway in August 1861—When War Still Felt Distant

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Five Dead in Brooklyn Factory Explosion—And the Boiler Had Never Been Properly Tested

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

August 1846: When a Condemned Killer Sold His Body to Science (and Got Paid in Rum)

Arkansas state gazette (Little Rock, Ark.)

Teaching Gigs, Patent Sales & the Slave Market: Inside Washington's August 1836

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