On This Day: September 23 — Century Dispatch

Tunney's Miracle Comeback: How a Champion Dodged Destiny in Front of 150,000

Douglas daily dispatch (Douglas, Ariz.)

1926: 132,000 Pack Stadium as Dempsey-Tunney Drama Unfolds

New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)

Czar Arrives in Scotland Under Heavy Guard as Bryan Storms West Virginia—and Queen Victoria Makes Royal History

Waterbury Democrat (Waterbury, Conn.)

Michigan Fair Week 1886: When a Piano on Display and Apples on a Branch Made Headlines

Weekly expositor (Brockway Centre, Mich.)

1876 Augusta: When Fish Sold for 10¢/lb and Wall Street Promised to Turn $10 into $40

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

One Year After Lee's Surrender: Why New Orleans Is Rioting Again (and Other Chaos From Sept. 1866)

The daily Gate City (Keokuk, Iowa)

1865: 'Slavery is dead forever' — A defeated governor's stark ultimatum

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

Generals Abandon Ship: How Lincoln's Own Party Nearly Lost Him the 1864 Election

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Sam Houston Dies as Maryland Pivots to Emancipation—And Ohio's War Democrats Plan Armed Polls

Cleveland morning leader (Cleveland [Ohio])

Peace Rumors & Dying Generals: Worcester Faces Civil War Fatigue, September 1862

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

New Orleans, September 1861: Gunboats, Duels, and the Panic of Early War

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

Davenport, Iowa, 1856: When a River Town's Merchants Ignored the Coming Civil War

Daily Iowa State Democrat (Davenport, Iowa)

How Baltimore's Volunteers Became America's First Conquerors (And What It Cost)

American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper (Baltimore, Md.)

September 1836: Inside the Washington Mansion Auction That Launched a Dynasty

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