On This Day: April 6 — Century Dispatch

100 Years Ago Today: America Entered WWI—And Its Heroes Were Already Fading

New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)

1926: Celebrity Bandit's Final Hour & $10K Diamonds for a Beauty Queen

Brownsville herald (Brownsville, Tex.)

1906: NY Merchants Plot Venezuelan Invasion with 10,000 Soldiers & $500K

The Oregon mist (St. Helens, Columbia County, Or.)

When Maine Dreamed Big: The $100,000 Resort That Never Was (+ why Victorian Sarsaparilla Was America's Snake Oil)

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

Judge, Marshal, and Telephone Cases: Inside the Patronage Wars of 1886 Washington

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

A Customs Officer, $22,000 in Gold, and a Deathbed Confession in Ceylon: The Scandal That Haunted Maryland

Saint Mary's beacon (Leonard Town, Md.)

One Year After Appomattox: How America Was Already Moving On (April 1866)

Baltimore daily commercial (Baltimore, Md.)

Three Days Before Surrender: Confederate Paper Still Debating Military Strategy

The daily confederate (Raleigh, N.C.)

Scared Senators & Soldiers' Votes: How Albany's Governors-in-Waiting Fumbled Civil War Leadership

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

Grant's Narrow Escape, Vicksburg Under Fire: Why This April 1863 Dispatch Reveals the War's Hidden Crisis

Memphis daily appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)

1862: While Shiloh Bled, Columbus Sold Wedding Cakes and Army Stoves

Daily Ohio statesman (Columbus, Ohio)

April 6, 1861: New Orleans celebrates as $1M in orders flee New York's 'ruinous' tariff

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

1856: When New York Debated God, River Pirates, and Anonymous Internet Trolls

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

April 1846: Washington Booming With Property Deals—While War Looms Unnoticed

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

Life Insurance, French War Claims, and Slave Auctions: Inside a Washington Boom Before the Crash

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