On This Day: August 22 — Century Dispatch

Sacco-Vanzetti Face the Chair, Three Planes Missing Over the Pacific, and Seattle's Female Mayor Shocks America—August...

The daily Alaska empire (Juneau, Alaska)

How Gertrude Ederle's swim saved a drowning sailor (and other tales from 1926)

South Bend news-times (South Bend, Ind.)

🎯 When Shopping Money Required a $12,500 Stock Trade (Plus: Cuban Revolution & Kansas Assassination Plot)

The Topeka state journal (Topeka, Kansas)

Death at Sea, Chaos on Campaign Trail: How the 1896 Race to Save America's Currency Was Already Tearing Apart

The Dalles weekly chronicle (The Dalles, Or.)

Churchill's Reckless Gambit Threatens to Shatter Britain's New Coalition—And Russia's Czar May Be Losing His Mind

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

Love, Fire & $2,000: Inside an 1876 Maine Newspaper's Victorian Heartbreak

Oxford Democrat (Paris, Me.)

1866: Armed Fenians, Cholera Deaths, and Patent Medicine Promises—America's Chaotic Summer

The Evansville journal (Evansville, Ind.)

1865: Transatlantic cable dies in 2,000 fathoms as Reconstruction violence explodes

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

REVEALED: The Secret Plot to Start a Northwest Rebellion—and How Lincoln's Party Stopped It

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

August 1863: Lee Plans His Next Move—Plus, Enslaved People Escape Savannah & Beecher's Magical Organ Concert

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

A Mother's Tears & a Soldier's Plea: Connecticut's Desperate Plea for Recruits, August 1862

The Willimantic journal (Willimantic, Conn.)

When Insurance Ruled: Inside New Orleans' Thriving 1856 Merchant Economy (and Why It All Mattered)

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

Four Men Tarred & Feathered a Woman in Her Own Home — And Almost Got Away With It (1846)

Indiana State sentinel (Indianapolis [Ind.])

100 Years Ago Today: When America's Biggest Fortunes Were Built on Rails, Timber—and Human Trafficking

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