On This Day: October 10 — Century Dispatch

October 10, 1927: When a Mayor's Wife Became His Escape Plan—Plus Bombs, Bandits & Record-Breaking Chickens

South Bend news-times (South Bend, Ind.)

40-yard shark terrorizes Italy, Cardinals force Game 7, and a jury won't convict Harding's crooked AG

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

1906: America Takes Cuba, Conquers the Hudson River, and Yellow Fever Strikes Back

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

Straw Dummy, Sawing Iron & a British Prime Minister's Bitter Exit—Oct. 10, 1896

Waterbury Democrat (Waterbury, Conn.)

Lord Randolph Churchill Vanishes Under a Fake Name—And His Party Plots to Steal Home Rule

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

A Mother's Miraculous Rescue: The Untold Story of America's Deadliest Steamboat Disaster

Oxford Democrat (Paris, Me.)

October 1866: Republicans Win Big—And a French Opera Troupe Goes Down at Sea

The Evansville journal (Evansville, Ind.)

October 1865: When freed slaves got the right to testify & oil boomtowns turned lawless

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

The South Admits Defeat: Inside the Collapse of Richmond, October 1864

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Oct. 1863: How the Army of the Potomac Fell in Love With Lincoln—and Each Other

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

A Dakota Maiden's Death Song: The Tragic Legend Connecticut Readers Read While a Nation Bled

The Willimantic journal (Willimantic, Conn.)

War, Transatlantic Trade & Snake Oil: What New York Was Actually Selling in October 1861

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

1856: Watch the South Build Railroads While America Burns—Railroad Expansion on the Eve of Disunion

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

Louisiana Living in 1846: Magnolias, Silk, and the Secret Economy Behind Southern Gentility

Baton-Rouge gazette (Baton-Rouge, La.)

How Americans Got Obsessed With Speed: A 1836 Transportation Revolution (26 Hours From Baltimore to North Carolina)

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