On This Day: October 25 — Century Dispatch

Win a Studebaker! Inside a 1927 Kentucky newspaper's wild subscription sales war—and a murder case that hinged on one...

The Hazard herald (Hazard, Ky.)

1926: Cotton Crashes, Queens Tour America, and a Groom Gets Busted Speeding to His Wedding

Brownsville herald (Brownsville, Tex.)

When 5,000 Wichitans Stopped Traffic for a Republican Superstar—October 25, 1896

The Wichita daily eagle (Wichita, Kan.)

DEVASTATION IN MAINE: How Farmington Lost Everything in One Night (And How They're Rebuilding)

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

A Maine Newspaper From 1876: When Shoes Cost 50 Cents and Hair Restorer Promised 'Certainty'

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

A Kansas Paper Processes the South's Defeat: Poetry, Prospectors, and Political Rage (October 1866)

White Cloud Kansas chief (White Cloud, Kan.)

1865: 'Free Trade!' screams war-torn Louisiana as merchants hawk morphine and hoop skirts

The south-western (Shreveport, La.)

Cedar Creek Victory Seals the South's Fate—And Custer Gets His General's Stars

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

Desperate Calls & Burning Ships: The Civil War Reaches a Breaking Point—October 1863

Chicago daily tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

October 25, 1862: How London Reacted to Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation—Plus a Colonel Gets Heckled by a Democrat

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

October 1861: While America Bled, This Pennsylvania Paper Ran a Ghost Story About Pirate Gold

The Bedford gazette (Bedford, Pa.)

October 1856: As Election Day Looms, the South Bids for Rails Built With Slave Labor

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

Fresh from Monterey: Officers Fall, Empires Rise—What October 1846 Reveals About America's Ambitions

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

A Missing Boy, Revolutionary Stoves & the Birth of Shorthand: Inside 1836 Cincinnati's Industrial Fever Dream

The Daily Cincinnati Republican, and commercial register (Cincinnati, Ohio)