On This Day: November 1 — Century Dispatch

Mellon's Tax Fight & a $50K Inferno: Nov. 1, 1927

New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)

The Day Houdini Died & a $22M Mine Swindle Shook Two Nations

Le messager (Lewiston, Me.)

1906: When Politicians Feuded Over Mystery Candidates and Banks Counted Gold Coins

Watauga Democrat (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.)

500,000 Flags & A City Divided: When Wall Street Marched to Save America (Oct. 31, 1896)

The Wichita daily eagle (Wichita, Kan.)

Four Buried in Chicago Fire, One Dead—And the Water Was Still Rising

Savannah morning news (Savannah)

What Cost 21 Cents in 1876? Inside a Maine Newspaper's Bustling Marketplace

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

1865: When government women dressed like 'Parisian grisettes' and farmers fed charcoal to chickens

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

Lee's Last Stand Fails: Petersburg Assault Repulsed as Lincoln's Re-Election Seals the Confederacy's Fate

The evening telegraph (Philadelphia [Pa.])

A Widow's 3-State Rescue & the Horrors Union Soldiers Found in Richmond Prisons

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

The Ultimate Moral Test: A 1862 Essay That Dismantles Every Excuse for Slavery

L'union (Nouvelle-Orléans [La.])

Maryland Under the Boot: A London Times Reporter's Shocking Account of Federal Martial Law (Nov. 1861)

Montgomery County sentinel (Rockville, Md.)

Southern Rails & Federal Schemes: How America Built Its Way Toward Civil War (Nov. 1, 1856)

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

A Grandson's Vengeance: How a 1846 Penny Paper Told America's Darkest Secrets Through Serial Fiction

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

26 Hours to North Carolina: How Americans were obsessed with speed in 1836

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