On This Day: April 1 — Century Dispatch

Henry Ford Flat on His Back: When Even America's Richest Man Can't Escape the New Age of Crashes

New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)

1926: Judge Rules Woman Can Romance Dead Husband's Ghost + Maine Sheriff Scandal Explodes

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

Coal miners walk out with their tools as operators plot to import strikebreakers

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

War, Gold, and Fire: The Week the Republic Chose Its Champion (And Lost Half a Town)

The Dalles weekly chronicle (The Dalles, Or.)

Secret Senate Showdown Over Lincoln Monument & Why America's Civil Service Was in Chaos (April 1, 1886)

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

Boston Dreams Meet Arizona Reality: 150 New Englanders Head West to Build a Mountain Colony (1876)

Arizona citizen (Tucson, Pima County, A.T. [i.e. Ariz.])

Just 5 Days After Lincoln's Death: Inside a Nation Convulsing Over Justice, Violence, and Reconstruction

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

April 1, 1865: Grant launches the final offensive that will end the Civil War in 8 days

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

Women Sewing Shirts Worth $9.50 for 8 Cents—April 1864 Portland Press Exposes War-Era Wage Slavery

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

When the South Ran Out of Money: How a Small Arkansas Newspaper Captured the Confederacy's Final Desperation

Washington telegraph (Washington, Ark.)

One Year Into the Civil War: How Brooklyn Held Elections While America Bled

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

Nine Days Before Fort Sumter: The South Arms Itself, and Sam Houston Says No

The daily exchange (Baltimore, Md.)

Inside the Port That Made America Rich—48 Hours Before Everything Changed

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

A Treasure Hunt Gone Right: How a Baltimore Paper Sold Romance Over Revolution in 1846

American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper (Baltimore, Md.)

April 1, 1836: When Washington Discovered Life Insurance (and Stallion Stud Fees)

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