On This Day: August 29 — Century Dispatch

200 Feet Down: The Broadway Limited Disaster That Didn't Derail America (+ Fleeing Americans & Sacco-Vanzetti Chaos)

New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)

1926: Texas Tosses Out 'Ma' Ferguson, While American Women Conquer the English Channel

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

When Baseball Teams Had 'Bloomer Girls' and Lawsuits Were Solved by Marriage

Barbour County index (Medicine Lodge, Kan.)

Inside the Most Exclusive Mountain Resort in America (1896): Who Danced, Who Won, and What They Wore

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

Gladstone's Desperate Gamble: He Just Bet His Legacy on Irish Home Rule (And His Own Party Is Furious)

New-York tribune (New York [N.Y.])

1876 Delaware: When Ice Delivery Costs 60¢ and Mail-Order Medicine Promised Miracles

The daily gazette (Wilmington, Del.)

Andrew Johnson's Funeral Tour Turns into a Political Disaster—And the Tribune Is Furious

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

1865: When 'returned rebels' shot each other at barbecues & Mrs. Grant got jewelry from Appomattox's apple tree

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

Inside the Democratic Convention That Could Change the War: McClellan vs. the Peace Men (Aug. 29, 1864)

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

Charleston Falls & Lawrence Burns: The War's Turning Point Becomes Brutally Real (Aug. 29, 1863)

Springfield weekly Republican (Springfield, Mass.)

"Should Britain Back the South?" A Desperate Confederate Bid for Recognition, Debated in Parliament—August 1862

Memphis daily appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)

How a Confederate General Fooled the British (and Almost Fooled the Union)

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

How Congress Bet $300,000 on the Mississippi—and Why It Mattered More Than It Seemed (August 29, 1856)

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

A Drunk Man, a Ghost, and a Shotgun: What One 1846 Indiana Tale Reveals About America

Indiana State sentinel (Indianapolis [Ind.])

A Millionaire's Mansion Empties: Inside Washington's Booming 1836 Real Estate Frenzy

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