On This Day: September 2 — Century Dispatch

French Fliers Attempt Daring Atlantic Crossing as Chicago Movie Theaters Shut Down—Labor & Aviation Collide in 1927

Douglas daily dispatch (Douglas, Ariz.)

1926: When a drunk man paid his own fine & a bridge got stuck in the mud

The Lambertville record (Lambertville, N.J.)

1906: Alabama Elects a Railroad Trust-Buster as Governor

The Montgomery advertiser (Montgomery, Ala.)

Inside the Democratic Party's Meltdown: When Sitting Presidents Refused Their Own Party's Ticket (Sept. 2, 1896)

Waterbury Democrat (Waterbury, Conn.)

Congress Is Coming to Dakota: How a Tiny Territory Fought for Survival in 1886

Turner County herald (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.])

FRAUD ALERT: Arizona Territory's Census War—Did Officials Steal 10,000 Phantom Voters?

Arizona citizen (Tucson, Pima County, A.T. [i.e. Ariz.])

🧊 When Boston ice saved New Orleans & other wild tales from 1865

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

A Son's Last Choice: The Worthington Family and the Human Cost of Union Victory

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

1863: Northern Cities Rejoice as Charleston Burns—and a Boston Murder Shocks New England

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

VICTORY AT MANASSAS: Lee Routs Pope as Richmond Rejoices—But Winter Looms

Richmond Whig (Richmond, Va.)

Richmond's Last Peacetime Markets: What Merchants Were Selling When the Civil War Was Just Beginning

Richmond daily Whig (Richmond, Va.)

The Last Flush of Antebellum Prosperity: Inside New Orleans's Banking Elite in 1856

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

1846: When Electro-Galvanic Baths Cured Everything (And How Washington's Elite Educated Their Daughters)

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

Virginia Land Rush: The Last Boom Before the Crash of 1837

Richmond enquirer (Richmond, Va.)