On This Day: April 15 — Century Dispatch

Blackberry Jam & Hacksaw Blades: How One Man Tried to Break His Son Out of a 1927 Virginia Jail

Clinch Valley news (Jeffersonville, Va.)

1926: When West Virginia Farmers Finally Set Their Own Egg Prices (Plus Bank Foreclosures Galore)

Pocahontas times (Huntersville, W. Va.)

When Navy Guns Exploded & Russian Authors Got the Boot: April 15, 1906

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

From 1896 Alexandria: How Louisiana Tried to Save Farmers from Tax Forfeiture (and What the Railroads Charged)

The Louisiana Democrat (Alexandria, La.)

How a Maine Cow Turned $40 Worth of Feed Into $47 in Milk (Plus: Grant's Tomb Gets a National Ceremony)

The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.)

Delaware's Dead: Why a 1876 Gazette Page Is 90% Probate Notices—And What That Tells Us About Justice

The daily gazette (Wilmington, Del.)

100 Years Ago: Irish Rebels Massed on the Border—and Nobody Could Find Their Guns

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

The Vice President Was Drunk: A Shocking 1865 Inauguration Scandal

The Placer herald (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.)

A Railroad War Over Eight Cents: The Epic 1864 Editorial That Predicted America's Corporate Future

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

The Day After Shiloh: How NYC Boomed While America's Deadliest Battle Shocked the Nation (April 15, 1862)

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

April 15, 1861: New Orleans Celebrates as Fort Sumter Falls—and a Nation Tears Apart

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

For Sale: A Dying South's Empire—Thousands of Acres, "Superior" Horses, and the Casual Language of Slavery

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

Fifty-Four Forty or Fight: When Congress Debated War Over Oregon (1846)

The Arkansas banner (Little Rock, Ark.)

When Life Insurance Was $1/Year: Inside the Financial Hustle of 1836 Washington

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