On This Day: September 21 — Century Dispatch

How a County Treasurer Killed a Wolf With His Car (and Got Paid for It)

Grand Rapids herald-review (Grand Rapids, Itasca County, Minn)

1926: When aviation dreams crashed in flames and Alaska faced financial ruin

The Alaska daily empire (Juneau, Alaska)

1906: Navy mobilizes for Cuba crisis as federal agents expose railroad slavery in Tennessee

The Oregon mist (St. Helens, Columbia County, Or.)

A Blacksmith's Final Honor: How One Maine Town Grieved Its Self-Made Man (Sept. 21, 1896)

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

When 5,000 Socialists Packed Cooper Union (and the Police Showed Up): Sept. 21, 1886

Savannah morning news (Savannah)

How to Turn $10 Into $60 (And Other Dubious 1876 Wall Street Schemes)

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

25,000 Brave the Rain to Welcome Southern Loyalists—Reconstruction at Its Peak

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

1865: When Connecticut Voted on Black Suffrage (Spoiler: It Failed)

The Willimantic journal (Willimantic, Conn.)

A Nation Borrowing for Survival: Inside Lincoln's Treasury Plea of September 1864

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

When War Democrats Turned on Peace Democrats: A Springfield Rally Changes Illinois Politics, September 1863

Canton weekly register (Canton, Ill.)

Last Stand of the Rebels: Inside a Doomed Chattanooga Newspaper, September 1862

The Chattanooga Daily Rebel (Chattanooga, Tenn.)

New York Goes to War: Inside the Military Recruitment Blitz of September 1861

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

When New York Debated Damnation: The Theology Wars of 1856

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

September 1846: Washington Schools, Coal, and a Glass-Padded Medical Miracle

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