On This Day: August 23 — Century Dispatch

Bridge Fights and Model Homes: How a Jersey Town Built Its Future in 1927

The Pleasantville press (Pleasantville, N.J.)

Harvard's 'America's First Citizen' Dies at 92 + Bootleg Booze Found in Fatal Crash

New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)

1906: Doctors ignore TB crisis while saloon robbers confess all

Watauga Democrat (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.)

How Belgium's King Ran a Lottery While Crushing Casinos (& Why One London Servant Couple's Scam Was Genius)

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

California's Land Rush: When 4,560 Acres Were the 'Greatest Bargain in the State' (1886)

Sacramento daily record-union (Sacramento [Calif.])

The Black Hills Commission Arrives: How Dakota Territory Opened the Sioux's Sacred Land (August 1876)

Lincoln County advocate (Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.])

A One-Armed Farmer's Rage: What a Forgotten 1866 Newspaper Reveals About Post-War Betrayal

Council Bluffs bugle (Council Bluffs, Iowa)

The Andersonville Monster's Trial Stalls & Lincoln's Successor Hits Pause on Pardons

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

Weapons Found in Indianapolis: Lincoln Faces Secret Army, Not Just Rebels (Aug. 23, 1864)

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

Fort Sumter Falls—But One Kansas Guerrilla Chief Just Burned a Whole City While the Army Watched

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

When Maryland Called 300,000 Men to War: A Priest's Poem & A Senator's Ultimatum (August 1862)

The Cecil Whig (Elkton, Md.)

Connecticut Goes to War: The Forgotten Statute That Organized 150,000 Soldiers (August 1861)

The Willimantic journal (Willimantic, Conn.)

Mississippi Dredging, Patent Medicine Wars, and Why a Penitentiary Sold Rope Fiber (August 23, 1856)

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

Tied to a Bench & Forced to Watch: Inside a Rowdy 1840s NYC Music Hall

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