On This Day: October 24 — Century Dispatch

How Alabama's $20M School Fight Predicted America's Greatest Divide

The Montgomery advertiser (Montgomery, Ala.)

When America Rescued 9,000 Orphans & Named a Giraffe Hi-Boy

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

🏛️ Roosevelt Shatters 117-Year Barrier: First Jewish Cabinet Member Named (Plus a Wild Horse Thief Shootout)

The Topeka state journal (Topeka, Kansas)

Former House Speaker Dies Suddenly as Election Looms—and Four Bandits Strike a Train Near Kansas City

Waterbury Democrat (Waterbury, Conn.)

What Savannah's Biggest Store Was Selling for 25 Cents in 1886 (And It's Shocking)

Savannah morning news (Savannah)

1876: How Maine's Merchants Sold the American Dream—One 10-Cent Ad at a Time

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

Reconstruction's Boiling Point: When Baltimore Nearly Erupted and Sherman Gave Indians an Ultimatum

The Evansville journal (Evansville, Ind.)

Britain Tells America to Buzz Off (Politely) — Plus Mexico's Death Decree

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

Missouri Burns: Price's Invasion Captures Glasgow as Confederacy Makes Desperate Final Gamble (Oct. 24, 1864)

The evening telegraph (Philadelphia [Pa.])

90-Minute Miracle: How the 34th Massachusetts Saved Charlestown from Confederate Imboden

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

35 Dead in Confederate Troop Train Disaster: How a Head-On Collision Near Duck Hill Changed Everything

American citizen (Canton, Miss.)

Two West Point Rivals Face Off at Edward's Ferry—Plus the Piracy Trial That Could Spark Executions

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

October 1856: One Month Before the Election, New Orleans Was Shipping Everything—and Nobody Was Talking Politics

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

One Cent Gets You Everything: A Temperance Crusade, Galvanic Quackery, and Democracy in 1846 Washington

The Columbian fountain (Washington, D.C.)

From Philly to Raleigh in 26 Hours: How 1836 America Obsessed Over Speed

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