On This Day: October 17 — Century Dispatch

Woman Aviator Ditches Transatlantic Flight; Tea Pot Dome Duo Go on Trial; Texas Booming

Brownsville herald (Brownsville, Tex.)

1926: Border town approves million-dollar makeover as floating arsenal kills 1,200

Brownsville herald (Brownsville, Tex.)

1906: Kansas Farmers Vote on Revolutionary Plan to Give Every Kid Free High School

Barbour County index (Medicine Lodge, Kan.)

Republicans Flood the West with Speakers as Bryan Gains Ground (and a Bold Train Heist Shocks Utah)

The Dalles weekly chronicle (The Dalles, Or.)

Young Churchill's Power Play: How a 31-Year-Old Brit Rewrote Conservative Politics—and Why It Still Matters

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

How a Maine Dentist, Shaker Cures, and a Pirate's Treasure Tale Reveal 1876 America

Oxford Democrat (Paris, Me.)

1865: When ex-Confederates begged for pardons & judges sold freed slaves back into bondage

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

The Richmond Whig's Last Stand: October 1864, When Confederate Editors Still Demanded 'Keep Pegging Away!'

Richmond Whig (Richmond, Va.)

Maryland's War Within the War: A Union Man's Tortured Defense of Slavery (1863)

The Cecil Whig (Elkton, Md.)

When Worcester Learned the Civil War Would Never End: The Desperate October 1862 Recruiting Push

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

From October 1861: When NYC Newspapers Became Recruitment Centers—and Sold Kerosene That Didn't Explode

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

The South's Railroad Gamble: How Mississippi Built (and Lost) Its Future — October 1856

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

The Mexican War Was Raging, but Washington's Real News Was Better Tailors and Fancy Knives

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