On This Day: September 16 — Century Dispatch

Gas Stations vs. Neighborhoods: How One Jersey Town Fought Back in 1927

Beverly banner (Beverly, N.J.)

🎻 Prison Rosh Hashanah, rooftop escapes, and a violinist's big break

Intermountain Jewish news (Denver, Colo.)

When Cubans Begged America to Invade (And Taft Almost Missed the Boat Writing Magazine Articles)

The Montgomery advertiser (Montgomery, Ala.)

Did Britain Pay Ransom for a Fake Dynamite Plot? Plus: Factories Roar Back to Life

Waterbury Democrat (Waterbury, Conn.)

How a Michigan Village Reinvented Itself From Stumps to Storefronts (1886)

Weekly expositor (Brockway Centre, Mich.)

1876 Augusta: How Fish Markets, Patent Medicines & Wall Street Brokers Sold Dreams to Maine

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

Johnson's Tour Flops While Radicals Rally the North—Reconstruction's Turning Point

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

1865: Confederate raiders still burning ships, chloroform burglars, and why Navy officers needed to speak French

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

Atlanta Falls: Seward Exposes Confederate Spy Ring & Declares War is Winnable (Sept. 16, 1864)

Bedford inquirer (Bedford, Pa.)

A 13-Year-Old Snuck Out to Dump Tea, Then Built Worcester Into a Business Empire

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Lee's Army "Shockingly Whipped": The North Celebrates Victory at South Mountain (Sept. 16, 1862)

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

The Merchant Republic: Inside New Orleans' $1.5M Insurance Boom (Just Before Everything Burned)

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

A Penny Newspaper for Sobriety: Inside Washington's 1846 Temperance Press

The Columbian fountain (Washington, D.C.)

When Virginia Auctioned Off Empires: Inside a Massive 1836 Estate Sale

Richmond enquirer (Richmond, Va.)