On This Day: September 18 — Century Dispatch

McAdoo Steps Aside, Smith Stays Silent—1928 Democratic Race Becomes Wide Open

The Cordele dispatch (Cordele, Georgia)

When Milwaukee Readers Escaped to Italy's Blue Grotto in the Sunday Funnies

The Milwaukee leader (Milwaukee, Wis.)

🏝️ When Cuba Nearly Sparked War (Again) & Teddy Roosevelt Outfoxed the Democrats

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

The Democrats' Desperate Gamble (and a Dynamite Conspiracy That Terrified Two Continents)

Waterbury Democrat (Waterbury, Conn.)

When a General's Grandson Sparked a Panic: Inside Washington's Mormon Powder Keg (Sept. 1886)

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

What Did Oysters Cost in 1876 Maine? (Plus: Furnaces, Spam, and Tramp-Proof Revolvers)

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

Bushwhackers Attack Union Convention | Austria Threatens Prussia | Grasshoppers Blot Out the Sun

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

🌊 Terror 77 feet under Lake Michigan + a French baron's scandalous Spanish wife

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

The Day America Awarded Its First Medals of Honor—And Democrats Tried to Stop the War

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

Forrest Wounded But Pursues Rosecrans: A Confederate Paper's Last Moment of Triumph (September 18, 1863)

Memphis daily appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)

A D.C. Newspaper Celebrates Confederate Victory—Just Miles from the Capitol (Sept. 1862)

The national Republican (Washington, D.C.)

Ohio Boys Dig In: Inside the Trenches of Virginia, September 1861

Cleveland morning leader (Cleveland [Ohio])

Bleeding Kansas in 1856: When Newspapers Manufactured Fake Deaths—And Missed the Real Ones

Weekly Indiana State sentinel (Indianapolis [Ind.])

1846 Washington: Pianos, Plantations & the Making of a Capital

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