On This Day: April 4 — Century Dispatch

When a Forgotten Sewing Machine Made an Elkins Woman Rich—Plus the Nation's Bold Plan to Build a Second Panama Canal

The Elkins inter-mountain (Elkins, W. Va.)

1926: When Prohibition Agents Wanted Warrants to Search Your Home

Yidishes ṭageblaṭṭ = The Jewish daily news (New York, N.Y.)

April 1906: Maine logging camp murder, federal quarantine power grab, and $125K trolley makeover

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

The Great Money Lie: How a Senator Proved the U.S. Treasury Was Hiding the Truth About Your Wallet (1896)

The dawn (Ellensburg, Wash.)

Gladstone's Irish Gamble, Bismarck's Church Showdown, and Sam Jones's Revival Ruckus (April 4, 1886)

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

1876: While America Prepares to Turn 100, a Maine Newspaper Celebrates Love, Duty & Doctoring

Oxford Democrat (Paris, Me.)

One Year After Lee's Surrender: How Baltimore's Insurance Boom Reveals a City Desperate to Rebuild (1866)

Baltimore daily commercial (Baltimore, Md.)

$3,000 shawls and petroleum shoes: What America obsessed over 5 days before Lee's surrender

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

A Burning Ship, a Severed Leg, and One Admiral's Daring Gamble: Port Hudson, April 1863

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

No War News Here: How an Indiana Town Advertised 'Business As Normal' in April 1862

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

"We Are Masters of the Situation": Confederate Confidence on the Eve of Fort Sumter

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

The Shipping News That Shaped a Doomed Empire: New Orleans in 1856

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

Lost Rabbit Hounds & French Cashmere: A Day in Baton Rouge Before the War

Baton-Rouge gazette (Baton-Rouge, La.)

Virginia Democrats Erupt: Legislators Accuse Majority of Betraying the People's Will in Van Buren Nomination (1836)

Lynchburg Virginian (Lynchburg [Va.])