On This Day: October 4 — Century Dispatch

Small-Town America at a Crossroads: Pleasantville's $635K School Debt Divides a New Jersey Town (October 1927)

The Pleasantville press (Pleasantville, N.J.)

The Wedding Day Murder & D.C. Stephenson's Prison Roommate

The Indianapolis times (Indianapolis [Ind.])

1906: Free Train Rides to Buy Pianos & A Small-Town Editor's Epic Feud

The Loup City northwestern (Loup City, Neb.)

1896: A Congressman Warns America Against 'Cheap Money'—and Three Masked Men Chloroform an Old Woman for Her Savings

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

When Wine Cellars & Alfalfa Built California: A Land Boom Front Page from 1886

Sacramento daily record-union (Sacramento [Calif.])

1876: How Druggists Fit Surgical Trusses & Other Forgotten Services—Plus Wall Street's Outrageous Ad Claims

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

Kansas Paper Roasts President Johnson: 'You Cannot Cheat the People, John' (1866)

White Cloud Kansas chief (White Cloud, Kan.)

1865: Baltimore Workers March for 8-Hour Days While Reconstruction Stumbles Forward

Baltimore daily commercial (Baltimore, Md.)

Richmond Falls? Union Cavalry Routs Rebels as Sherman Advances and Price Invades Missouri (Oct 4, 1864)

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

A Union Spy's Last Words on the Richmond Gallows—and the Desperate Wartime Questions Tearing America Apart

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

Can the Union Finish What Maryland Started? A War at the Crossroads, October 1862

Springfield weekly Republican (Springfield, Mass.)

A Maryland merchant's wife learns gratitude in October 1861—while the Civil War raged outside her door

Montgomery County sentinel (Rockville, Md.)

What Congress Paid for in 1856 (And Why It Matters Before the Civil War)

Daily Iowa State Democrat (Davenport, Iowa)

Potatoes Rotting Across Europe, Empires Fracturing: Oct. 4, 1846

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

1836: When Presidential Candidates Bet Real Money on Election Results

Richmond enquirer (Richmond, Va.)