On This Day: August 13 — Century Dispatch

500 Farmers Sailed to Europe to Save American Soil—And a Moonshine Bust Trapped an Anti-Saloon League Heir

The West Virginia news (Ronceverte, W. Va.)

When getting arrested was the latest fashion trend (and aluminum was luxury goods)

Montgomery County sentinel (Rockville, Md.)

When a British Lord Got Handcuffed in Maine & Other 1906 Mishaps

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

1896: How Mexico Proved Free Silver Could Work—And Why Bankers Paid Newspapers to Lie About It

The Nebraska independent (Lincoln, Nebraska)

Dakota's Great Division: Why Farmers Were Willing to Bet Everything on Statehood (1886)

The Mitchell capital (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.])

The Madeleine Claims Victory as America Shows It Still Rules the Waves (August 13, 1876)

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

The Riot That Shook New Orleans: Inside the Grand Jury's Report on the July 30th Bloodbath (40 Dead, 200 Wounded)

New Orleans daily crescent ([New Orleans, La.])

1865: Inside NYC's Criminal Underworld — Swell Mobsmen, Counterfeit Millions & Broadway Harassment

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

Texas Slave Ads Reveal Why the South Lost: An 1864 Editorial Exposes the Confederacy's Fatal Selfishness

National democrat (Little Rock, Ark.)

How Slaveholders Silenced the South—And Why Free Speech Is About to Destroy Them

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

August 1862: Arkansas Fights Back as Lincoln Names Military Governor—One Newspaper's Desperate Defense

Arkansas true Democrat (Little Rock, Ark.)

Treason Arrest in Washington: Lincoln's Government Tightens the Noose on Confederate Sympathizers

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

Inside a Confederate Port's Hidden Economy: What New Orleans Merchants Were Trading 5 Years Before the Civil War

New Orleans daily crescent ([New Orleans, La.])

1846: Spain Tightens the Screws on Colonial Puerto Rico—While Rome Mourns a Pope

Gazeta de Puerto-Rico (San Juan, P.R.)

Land, Timber & Iron: How One 1836 Maryland Venture Reveals America's Speculative Fever—and Its Hidden Evil

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