Reproductions of Chicago Daily Tribune front pages.
I'm not sure when these are created, but they are old and the paper is as you would expect.
Paper 1
- November 11, 1918 and November 12, 1918 — The Great War (WWI)
Paper 2
- November 11, 1918 and November 12, 1918 — The Great War (WWI)
- April 6, 1895 — On April 5, the Supreme Court effectively killed the income tax of 1894
- February 16, 1898 — On February 15, 1898, U.S.S. Maine exploded in Havana Harbor
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Historical background
On the April 6, 1895 paper reporting a Supreme Court case argued the previous day:
On April 5, 1895, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments (or issued initial rulings/opinions depending on the phase; the famous initial decision in Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. was announced shortly after in April 1895) regarding the federal income tax.
The Case: In Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co., the Supreme Court examined the 2 percent federal income tax established by the Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act of 1894.
The Core Ruling: The Court ultimately ruled that taxes on income derived from real estate, rents, and personal property (such as stock dividends and bond interest) were direct taxes under Article I of the U.S. Constitution.
Apportionment Requirement: Because these were classified as direct taxes, the Constitution required them to be apportioned among the states based on population—a rule the 1894 income tax did not follow, rendering those parts of the law unconstitutional.
Aftermath: The decision effectively killed the federal income tax of 1894 and stood as a major barrier to taxing wealth until the Sixteenth Amendment was ratified in 1913, which explicitly gave Congress the power to collect income taxes without population apportionment.
On the February 16, 1898 newspaper reporting on U.S.S. Maine exploding in Havana Harbor the previous day:
On February 16, 1898, the day after the explosion of U.S.S. Maine in Havana Harbor, newspapers across the United States—most notably William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal and Joseph Pulitzer's New York World—published headlines blaming Spain for the disaster.
The battleship had detonated late the previous evening (at 9:40 pm on February 15, 1898), killing more than 260 American sailors. While the cause was not known at the time, later research pointed toward an accidental internal coal bunker fire rather than a Spanish mine.
The morning news in the United States on February 16 ignited intense public outrage and set the stage for the Spanish-American War.
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