On This Day: April 29 — Century Dispatch

A New Judge, Bootleggers by the Dozen, and a Woman Who Threw Her Easter Bonnet Into Virginia Politics

Clinch Valley news (Jeffersonville, Va.)

When Rockefeller's $10M Egyptian Dream Died & Chicago's 'Hanging Prosecutor' Met His Match

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

1906: The husband who had his wife committed (and the 84-year-old new father making wine)

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

Michigan Farm Town, 1886: When a Sugar Party and a Land Sale Cost $7,000—What Life Looked Like 138 Years Ago

Weekly expositor (Brockway Centre, Mich.)

Centennial Fever Grips America (Plus: Why the Army Has Way Too Many Colonels)

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

Congress Agrees on Reconstruction Plan While the South Descends Into Murder: April 29, 1866

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

The day a Black war reporter claimed Jefferson Davis's chair (and other April 1865 surprises)

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

Why Democrats Wanted to BAN Schools (1863) — Plus: Vicksburg Under Fire

Cleveland morning leader (Cleveland [Ohio])

A Soldier's Stiletto & the First Cotton Shipment: Life in Wartime Washington, April 1862

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

Virginia Joins the Confederacy, Maryland Votes to Follow—and a Cavalry Unit Threatens to Break a Prisoner Out of Jail

The daily exchange (Baltimore, Md.)

April 29, 1856: When New Orleans Advertised Slavery Alongside Coffee—A Port City on the Eve of Civil War

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

A Penny for Your Temperance: How One Washington Printer Started a Moral Crusade in 1846

The Columbian fountain (Washington, D.C.)

Thomas Jefferson's Personal Lexicons for Sale—Plus Life Insurance Rates That Will Shock You (1836)

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