On This Day: August 18 — Century Dispatch

1927: When a 103-Year-Old Newspaper Risked Everything for the Doomed Prisoners

Springfield weekly Republican (Springfield, Mass.)

1926: When tourists drove from Panama to Minnesota and women out-shot the men

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

1906: Bank Teller's Tragic End & the $2M Scandal That Rocked Chicago

Macon beacon (Macon, Miss.)

300-Room Mountain Resort, Pianos Worth $27,000 Today, and the Bicycles You Could Rent by the Hour—Life at 6,300 Feet in...

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

Inside the Machine: Why a Forgotten 1886 Gossip Column Reveals How Washington Actually Works

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

Starving on Marrow and Beetles: A 71-Year-Old Gold Rusher Breaks 27 Years of Silence in Arizona

Arizona weekly miner (Prescott, Ariz.)

Cholera, Fenian Invasions & Murdered Freedmen: America's Chaotic Summer of 1866

The Evansville journal (Evansville, Ind.)

1865: Confederate Governor's Brutal Confession — 'Our Hearts Were Never In It'

The Bedford gazette (Bedford, Pa.)

The South's Desperate Gamble: How Atlanta's Siege Revealed the Confederacy Was Running Out of Men (August 18, 1864)

The evening telegraph (Philadelphia [Pa.])

Lee's Army is Collapsing From Within—And Ohio Vigilantes Know It (Aug. 18, 1863)

Cleveland morning leader (Cleveland [Ohio])

100 Years Back: McClellan's Grand Army Quietly Retreats from Richmond—A Union Defeat Nobody Saw Coming

Chicago daily tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

War Diary: The Rebel Army Marches Toward Washington—And a Union Doctor Witnessed Hell

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

Before the War: New Orleans' Last Summer of Unchecked Commerce (1856)

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

Bavaria Opens Its Doors to American Settlers—Plus a $120 Lost Wallet and a Steamship War

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