On This Day: November 2 — Century Dispatch

When a Grand Rapids hotel burned so bright they thought the whole town was on fire—Nov. 2, 1927

Grand Rapids herald-review (Grand Rapids, Itasca County, Minn)

The 12-year-old bride, Coolidge's desperate train ride, and a preacher on trial for murder

The Washington times (Washington [D.C.])

Murder, Money & Maine Forests: Small Town Drama from 1906

The Willimantic journal (Willimantic, Conn.)

Election Eve in Maine: Colby Crushes Rivals 4-0 While McKinley Steamrolls Toward the White House

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

Election Day 1886: When Henry George Nearly Elected a Socialist Mayor of New York

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

Election Week, 1876: See How Augusta's Merchants Advertised While Democracy Hung in Balance

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

Maryland on the Brink: Governor Fires Police Commissioners, Military Standby Ordered (Nov. 2, 1866)

The Evansville journal (Evansville, Ind.)

When George Washington's general said no: A Civil War town remembers Revolutionary heroes

The Willimantic journal (Willimantic, Conn.)

The $8,000 Horse & the Battle Grant Watched: How Union Forces Outflanked Lee's Crumbling Petersburg Line

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

Richmond, Nov. 1863: A Duel, 50,000 Cavalry, and One City's Last Gasp

Richmond Whig (Richmond, Va.)

How Southern Families Made Winter Coats From River Mud: November 1862

The Chattanooga Daily Rebel (Chattanooga, Tenn.)

How New Orleans Prepared for War: November 1861's Volunteer Calls, Benefit Concerts & Patent Trusses

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

Racing for the South: How Railroads Competed for Nashville's Trade in 1856

Nashville union and American (Nashville, Tenn.)

Glass Rupture Pads & Imported Chefs: Inside Washington's November 1846 Medical & Culinary Innovations

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

1836: 26 Hours from Baltimore to the Carolinas—How America Built the Transportation Revolution

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