On This Day: October 29 — Century Dispatch

A Black Man Accused of Murder, Moved Between 5 Jails in Days—How 1927 Virginia 'Protected' Justice

Richmond planet (Richmond, Va.)

Bank Robber's Brother Shot, Evangelist's Hair Found, & a Millionaire's Daughter Punches the Clock

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

Bryan's Desperate Final Push, Murder on the Road, and Why Harvard Got Nervous About Bad Grammar

Waterbury Democrat (Waterbury, Conn.)

1886 Dakota: When a Harness Maker's Town Could Swing an Election

The Warner sun (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.])

Life Insurance Collapse: How Gilded Age Bankers Faked Billions (and Got Away With It)

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

Grant Meets Taylor, Longstreet Cashes In: How the South Went Back to Business (October 1866)

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

1865: Irish Immigrant Offers $1,000 to Avoid Political Office (Plus: Do Fortune Tellers Actually Work?)

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

How Civil War Soldiers Got $100 Bounties (And Patent Medicine Companies Got Rich) — October 1863

Civilian & telegraph (Cumberland, Md.)

A Union General Accused of Murdering His Own Men—and Lincoln Just Fired Him

Cleveland morning leader (Cleveland [Ohio])

Lincoln's Secret Weapon: Trading with the Enemy (Even in Wartime)

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Five Days Before the Election That Broke America: What Was Washington Building?

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

One Cent for Redemption: The Temperance Paper That Tried to Save America's Soul (1846)

The Columbian fountain (Washington, D.C.)

1836: America's Transportation Revolution Hits Warp Speed—And It's Chaos

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