On This Day: October 30 — Century Dispatch

A Newspaper Bet $230,000 Worth of Cars on a Subscription Stunt—And Bobby Jones Just Joined Golf's Power Brokers

The Cordele dispatch (Cordele, Georgia)

1926: Mammoth Bones, Missing Paychecks, and a $500,000 Mining Gamble

Douglas daily dispatch (Douglas, Ariz.)

🏝️ When Teddy Roosevelt promised the Philippines a parliament (and Judge Dole went easy on lawbreakers)

The Hawaiian star (Honolulu [Oahu])

Eight Dead as G.A.R. Veterans' Train Derails Near St. Louis — A Crew's Forgotten Orders Turn Deadly

The Oregon mist (St. Helens, Columbia County, Or.)

Dakota Boom: Banking, Statehood Dreams & a Burglar's Worst Luck (1886)

The DeSmet leader (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.])

The Last Train to History: How Maine Rushed to See America's Greatest Birthday Party

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

The Fenian Crisis, Freedmen Murders, and America's Fractured Reconstruction (Oct. 30, 1866)

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

The Newlyweds Who Never Made It Home: 1865's Deadliest Steamboat Disaster

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

143 to 1: How Union Soldiers Saved Lincoln's Reelection—9 Days Out (Oct. 30, 1864)

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

Barefoot Rebels & Desperate Pleas: The Confederacy's Supply Crisis Exposed (Oct. 30, 1863)

Memphis daily appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)

Oct 30, 1862: McClellan Finally Moves as Baltimore Erupts Over Military Arrests

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

Wash Tub Prison Break & Lincoln Removes His Most Popular General (Oct. 30, 1861)

Cleveland morning leader (Cleveland [Ohio])

1856: The South Bet Everything on Railroads (and Slavery). A Week Before It All Changed.

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

For Sale: An Entire Ohio City for $9,000 (Plus, a Troubling Soap Ad From 1846)

The Daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])