On This Day: October 31 — Century Dispatch

Halloween 1927: When One Day Brought Murder, Aviation Disaster, a Shipwreck, and a Swamp Rescue

New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)

The day before Houdini died: Irish football, frontier justice, and political scandal in 1926

South Bend news-times (South Bend, Ind.)

1906: Kansas town battles Big Railroad, releases exotic pheasants, and mourns a tragic suicide

Barbour County index (Medicine Lodge, Kan.)

100 Years Ago Today: America Votes on Silver, Empire, and McKinley's Future—With Bryan Drawing Fainting Crowds

Semi-weekly register (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.)

Inside a Savannah Store's $25,000 Bargain Bonanza (1886): When Sealskin Coats Were a "Deal"

Savannah morning news (Savannah)

A Vengeful Ghost Follows a Man Home: The Terrifying Serial Story That Haunted Maine Readers in 1876

Oxford Democrat (Paris, Me.)

When America Sent 10,000 Troops to Mexico (and Nearly Started a War with Canada) — Oct. 31, 1866

The Evansville journal (Evansville, Ind.)

Election Week 1864: A Dying Confederacy, a Young General's Last Stand, and Maryland Goes Free

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

Union Breakthrough in Tennessee—And the Horrifying Truth About Confederate Prisons

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

How Enslaved Women Powered the Confederate War Machine: October 1862 Economic Analysis Shocks Worcester

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

October 1861: Inside the Confederate Government's First War Elections—and a Candidate's Stunning Confession

Arkansas true Democrat (Little Rock, Ark.)

John C. Frémont's Last Plea for the Pacific Railroad—8 Days Before the 1856 Election

The Evansville daily journal (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.])

A Lovesick Lunatic Threatens to Tie Up the Winds: Indianapolis Newspaper, 1846

Indiana State sentinel (Indianapolis [Ind.])

Lost Boy, Patent Stoves & Steam Power: How Cincinnati Reinvented Daily Life in 1836

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