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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1909
Page
3
President Taft sent to Congress a message urging a constitutional amendment to allow a 2 percent tax on net corporate incomes and to permit income tax without apportionment. He argues it would raise about 25 million dollars annually, provide federal supervision, and curb corporate power abuses.
Edwin Markham’s poem edition echoes through New York Independent lines as it portrays freedom as an endless war. The speaker calls on conscripts of liberty to defend moral and divine quests, invoking Thermopylae and Lexington as perpetual symbols of vigilance and sacrifice.
A boy named Freddie longs for firecrackers on the eve of the Fourth. His hard drinking father promises to help him but leaves to buy them, remembering a late wife and a missing return. Freddie wakes to the day’s countdown, while his father never returns.
A boy Freddie dies after playing with a pistol and firecrackers on the Fourth of July, while his father watches in sorrow. The piece blends a grim narrative with the Buffalo Express urged caution and medical guidance on handling Fourth of July injuries, including treatment steps from Surgeon General Wyman. It also includes verses and notes on the hazards of fireworks and a brief, humorous Sky Mocket Philosophy segment.
Professor George Burman Foster was expelled from the Chicago Baptist Ministers' Conference after a heated debate over his book The Function of Religion. The 40 to 10 vote removed him from conference fellowship though not his status as a Baptist minister. The move followed accusations of heretical beliefs and called for his dismissal from the University of Chicago faculty.
Unidentified man about 40, likely murdered and robbed, found dead in a box car at Akron Ohio. Skull crushed, pockets cut and rifled. Car came from Hammond Indiana. Note addressed to J M O Lear mentioned Fairfield elevated to La Grange car Ogden avenue. $100000 fire claim noted at Penta factory.
A fragmentary historical clipping depicts a call and response around a July Fifth incident. Names like Chauncey Jones and Albert Jones appear among disrupted lines. A line notes Hill is at St Luke's with injuries and suggests a toy pistol caused a fatal or near fatal wound, with ambulance responders and a repair note for a head injury.
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