On This Day: October 15 — Century Dispatch

She Lost Her Plane Over the Atlantic—But Not Her Lipstick: Aviation's Greatest Week in 1927

The Bismarck tribune (Bismarck, N.D.)

1926: Navy dirigible races through darkness while Romanian Queen devours American pancakes

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

A Famous Preacher's Desperate Prayer: How One Sermon Captured America's 1896 Economic Collapse

The Sioux County journal (Harrison, Nebraska)

October 1886: Inside the Booming South Omaha Stockyards—Where American Ranching Became Industrial Commerce

South Omaha stockman (South Omaha, Neb.)

Last Stand: Inside the Republican Panic as Louisiana's Reconstruction Dreams Crumble (Oct. 15, 1876)

New Orleans Republican (New Orleans, La)

1866: A Steamship Lost at Sea, a Boy Shot on a Country Road, and New Orleans Trying to Rebuild

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

1865: Vote or Lose It Forever—NYC's First Voter Registration Crisis

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

October 15, 1864: Grant's Confidence, Mosby's Terror, and the Election That Could Have Lost the War

The evening telegraph (Philadelphia [Pa.])

When America Split in Two: A Wartime Poem and a Treaty That Opened China (Oct. 15, 1862)

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Nashville Celebrates Bull Run Victory—But a Dangerous Letter Delivery System Reveals War's True Cost

Daily Nashville patriot (Nashville, Tenn.)

The South's Grand Railroad Gamble—and Why It Mattered in 1856

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

While America Fought Mexico, Washington Sold Hernia Trusses and French Fabric (Oct. 15, 1846)

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

Steamships, Slave Auctions & Waltzing: Inside Washington's Hustle in 1836

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