{"product_id":"wwi-newspapers","title":"Reproduction \"Chicago Daily Tribune\" front pages, including end of The Great War","description":"\u003cp class=\"Polaris-Header-Title\"\u003eReproductions of \u003cem\u003eChicago Daily Tribune \u003c\/em\u003efront pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Polaris-Header-Title\"\u003eI'm not sure when these are created, but they are old and the paper is as you would expect.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Polaris-Header-Title\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaper 1\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"Polaris-Header-Title\"\u003eNovember 11, 1918 and November 12, 1918 — The Great War (WWI)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaper 2\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNovember 11, 1918 and November 12, 1918 — The Great War (WWI)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eApril 6, 1895 — On April 5, the Supreme Court effectively killed the income tax of 1894\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFebruary 16, 1898 — On February 15, 1898, U.S.S. Maine exploded in Havana Harbor\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Polaris-Header-Title\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShipping:\u003c\/strong\u003e $10. Please allow two weeks for shipping.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Polaris-Header-Title\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHistorical background\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Polaris-Header-Title\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e On the April 6, 1895 paper reporting a Supreme Court case argued the previous day:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Polaris-Header-Title\"\u003eOn 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 \u0026amp; Trust Co. was announced shortly after in April 1895) regarding the federal income tax.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Polaris-Header-Title\"\u003eThe Case: In Pollock v. Farmers' Loan \u0026amp; Trust Co., the Supreme Court examined the 2 percent federal income tax established by the Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act of 1894.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Polaris-Header-Title\"\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Polaris-Header-Title\"\u003eApportionment 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Polaris-Header-Title\"\u003eAftermath: 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Polaris-Header-Title\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOn the February 16, 1898 newspaper reporting on U.S.S. Maine exploding in Havana Harbor the previous day:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn 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 \u003cem\u003eNew York Journal\u003c\/em\u003e and Joseph Pulitzer's \u003cem\u003eNew York World\u003c\/em\u003e—published headlines blaming Spain for the disaster.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe morning news in the United States on February 16 ignited intense public outrage and set the stage for the Spanish-American War.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBoth are from Google AI summaries\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The History List","offers":[{"title":"Paper 1 — $45.00","offer_id":68008683012398,"sku":"RARE-FINDS-WWI-NEWSPAPER1","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paper 2 — $55.00","offer_id":68008683045166,"sku":"RARE-FINDS-WWI-NEWSPAPER2","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1185\/2944\/files\/Reproduction_newspapers_including_The_Great_War.jpg?v=1794466370","url":"https:\/\/store.thehistorylist.com\/products\/wwi-newspapers","provider":"The History List","version":"1.0","type":"link"}