On This Day: October 1 — Century Dispatch

Babe Ruth Sets the Record—And a Tornado Devastates St. Louis (Oct. 1, 1927)

Brownsville herald (Brownsville, Tex.)

1926: Inside Omaha's Black Community + A Klansman's Shocking Confession

The monitor (Omaha, Neb.)

When Ships Attack: Hawaii's Worst Rescue Mission Goes Horribly Wrong (Plus: 760 Marines Land in Cuba)

The Hawaiian star (Honolulu [Oahu])

Bryan's Coming to Nebraska—Here's How One Town Prepared for the Election That Could Change Everything (1896)

The frontier (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.)

Political Caucuses, Frontier Fire, and the Wild Tumbleweed Train Collision: South Dakota, October 1886

The Warner sun (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.])

The Bank Collapse Eating Poor New Yorkers Alive—And Why Your Savings Account Didn't Exist Yet

The sun (New York [N.Y.])

Jefferson Davis Won't Face Trial—Plus General Santa Anna's Surprising Manhattan Office (Oct. 1, 1866)

The Evansville journal (Evansville, Ind.)

October 1864: Lincoln's Momentum Grows While the South Grasps for 30,000 Ghost Soldiers

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Iowa Calls Up the 9th Cavalry: How a Tiny Newspaper Captured Wartime on the Frontier

Charles City Republican intelligencer (Charles City, Iowa)

Garibaldi Shot & Exiled: The Italian Hero Writes His Own Betrayal from a British Ship (Oct 1862)

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Six Months Into Rebellion: New Orleans Prepares for War (While Attending Concerts)

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

Inside Antebellum New Orleans: 400+ Merchants Reveal a City at Peak Power—4 Years Before the Fall

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

One Cent for Truth: How a Temperance Newspaper Exposed 1846 Washington (and Galvanic Ring Scams)

The Columbian fountain (Washington, D.C.)

26 Hours from Baltimore to North Carolina: How 1836 Invented Speed Travel (and Enslaved People)

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