On This Day: October 12 — Century Dispatch

Aurora Borealis Blacks Out America's Telegraph Network—And a $801 Con Artist Pulls Off the Perfect Heist in Hartford

New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)

October 12, 1926: Connecticut's Flying Governor, Fatal Hunting Season Opens, and the Judge Who Wants Equal Pay

New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)

1906: Germany's 'Deep Game' in Persia, Cuba Won't Disarm & a Millionaire's Delinquent Son

The Oregon mist (St. Helens, Columbia County, Or.)

Championship Baseball & Lost Balls: How Honolulu's Stars Conquered Maui in 1896

The Hawaiian star (Honolulu [Oahu])

When 4,000 Knights of Labor Marched Together (and Why Powderly Had to Write a Letter Defending It)

Savannah morning news (Savannah)

1876: How One Texas Rancher Moved 40,000 Cattle & Why Maine Farmers Were Feeding Molasses to Cows

The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.)

GLORY HALLELUJAH! How Indiana Voters Ended Lenient Reconstruction in October 1866

The Evansville journal (Evansville, Ind.)

Last Gasps of a Dying Government: Arkansas Holds Elections in Military Camps, Issues Bonds Nobody Trusts (Oct. 1864)

Washington telegraph (Washington, Ark.)

The Day America Held Its Breath: Ohio's 1863 Election, Colored Soldiers' Silent Protest, and the War's Turning Point

Cleveland morning leader (Cleveland [Ohio])

J.E.B. Stuart Rides Into Pennsylvania & Gets Away With It—October 12, 1862

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

A Zouave's Grit and Tammany's Schemes: New York at War (Oct. 1861)

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

An Author Hiding a General Store Inside a Book Ad (1856 Nashville)

Nashville union and American (Nashville, Tenn.)

Wartime Washington: How a Nation Fights Mexico While Buying French Cloth and Glass Hernias

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

26 Hours from Baltimore to North Carolina: How Americans Were Rushing South in 1836

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