On This Day: October 20 — Century Dispatch

Fall's Dramatic Plea & The Democrats' Catholic Problem: October 20, 1927

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

🌪️ Florida braces for second deadly hurricane as queen gets soaked & philosophy profs nearly kill each other

The Washington daily news (Washington, D.C.)

Famous Evangelist Dies on Train & Mississippi Dreams Big (Oct 20, 1906)

Macon beacon (Macon, Miss.)

Wall Street in Panic: Wheat Explodes 4 Cents in One Hour—Plus: Spanish Troops Terrified of Their Own Soldiers in the...

Waterbury Democrat (Waterbury, Conn.)

Geronimo Exiled, Civil Service Under Fire, and the Great Bank-Note Crisis of 1886

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

Inside Augusta's 1876 Network: Telegraph, Money Orders & the Infrastructure Binding America Together

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

What Was Found Above Benjamin Franklin's Deathbed? A 1866 Mystery From the California Frontier

The Placer herald (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.)

A Willimantic dentist's ad, a dead soldier buried in genealogy, and why Ether was worth advertising in 1864

The Willimantic journal (Willimantic, Conn.)

A General's Miracle Escape + Confederate Arsonists Caught: Cleveland Reads of War's Turning Tide (Oct. 20, 1863)

Cleveland morning leader (Cleveland [Ohio])

Maine newspaper defends abolitionists—and claims slavery, not agitation, started the war (Oct. 20, 1862)

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

October 1861: Confederate Congress Authorizes Torture, Builds Bureaucracy, and Admits This War Will Last Forever

Nashville union and American (Nashville, Tenn.)

The Day Before the Storm: New Orleans at Peak Power, 1856 — and the Slavery That Built It

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

1846: When Washington Sold Miracle Cures & War Claims by the Page

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

26 Hours from Baltimore to Blakely: How 1836 Americans Raced to Connect a Fractured Nation

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