On This Day: April 7 — Century Dispatch

1927: Mountain Schools Get a Bailout, and One Nursery Man Built an Empire From Shrubs

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

Workers Kidnapped by Bosses & Vatican Army Visits America

The daily worker (Chicago, Ill.;New York, N.Y.)

1906: Armed guards, searchlights, and the Rockefeller empire's spectacular collapse

The labor world (Duluth, Minn.)

Congress Votes 244-27 for Cuba: How America's Path to Empire Began (April 6, 1896)

The Wichita daily eagle (Wichita, Kan.)

A Chinese Minister Locked Below Deck: How an American Port Official Created an International Incident (1886)

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

New Newspaper, Old South: Mississippi's Post-Reconstruction Business Class Advertises Itself (1876)

The advertiser (Lexington, Miss.)

Congress Defies Johnson: Civil Rights Bill Passes Over Veto as Reconstruction Turns Radical (April 7, 1866)

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

April 1865: Union prisoners sing from Dixie just days before Lee's surrender

The Bedford gazette (Bedford, Pa.)

Condemned to Chains: How the Union Silenced Southern Ministers—April 1864

Memphis daily appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)

April 1863: Confederate Desperation Leaks Through—'No Foreign Help Is Coming'

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

April 1862: How New York City Sold the Civil War—One Classified Ad at a Time

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

A Nashville Newspaper from 3 Days Before the Civil War Started—and Nobody Noticed

Nashville union and American (Nashville, Tenn.)

Gas Lights, Real Estate, and Opera: Inside the Washington Capital's Oblivious Boom, April 1856

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

Congress Debates Seats While War Looms: April 1846's Hidden Political Fault Lines

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

Patent Medicine Madness in 1836: How Cincinnati Patients Testified to Miracle Cures (and What This Reveals About...

The Daily Cincinnati Republican, and commercial register (Cincinnati, Ohio)