On This Day: October 8 — Century Dispatch

How a Cleveland NAACP Leader Told the Interior Secretary: 'I'm No Outsider'—1927's Federal Segregation Fight

The gazette (Cleveland, Ohio)

When Uncle Sam Made Bootleg Booze Taste Like Motor Oil (Plus: 10,000 Dead in Chinese Siege)

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

When potato pickers demanded pianos and 18 oxen pulled one wagon

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

When a Soldier Bought His Brother a Ticket to Wonder: A Nebraska Farm Boy's First Circus (1896)

The Sioux County journal (Harrison, Nebraska)

Why Treasury Couldn't Print Money Fast Enough (And Other Washington Headaches on October 8, 1886)

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

Five Dead in Harbor Fire: How a Candlelit Repair Job Became a Tragedy in 1876 New York

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

Pianos, Politics & Petty Crime: New Orleans' Chaotic Spring Back to Life (October 1866)

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

Oct 8, 1865: North Carolina abolishes slavery forever (and Philadelphia's triple murder spree)

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

October 1864: Grant's Petersburg Stalemate, Price Invades Missouri, and Sheridan Burns the Shenandoah

Springfield weekly Republican (Springfield, Mass.)

A 93-Year-Old Founding Father's Blessing: Why Quincy's Letter to Lincoln Changed Everything

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Buchanan Sabotages the Union, Six Brothers Fight for It: October 1862 in Ohio

Cleveland morning leader (Cleveland [Ohio])

"We Will Never, Never Reconstruct": Confederate Virginia Stakes Its Flag—October 1861

Staunton spectator (Staunton, Va.)

October 1856: When America's South Still Dreamed of Railroads (Before Everything Changed)

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

War, Canals & Commodores: Inside Indiana's 1846 Race to Shape America

Indiana State sentinel (Indianapolis)

Inside 1836 New Hampshire: Orphans, Property, and How Courts Really Worked

New-Hampshire statesman and state journal (Concord [N.H.])