Volume 15 , Issue 5

One Hundred Years Ago - Tuesday, 4 February 1913

One hundred years ago today, Tuesday, 4 February 1913, if you picked up your newspaper (The Tacoma Times, Tacoma, Washington, you might read in the headlines that "rebels Slay 22 Persons," "Father Makes Bombs That Sends His Own Daughter To Death," "Miners In A Free For All Fight," "Girl Swears She Was Held Gypsy Slave," "Income Tax Is Approved By Senate," and "Did Millionaire Beach, Society Leader Slash his wife's Throat? If He did Why Did He Do It?"

Income Tax Is Approved By Senate

Washington, D.C., Feb. 4 (1913) -- By the ratification of the 16th amendment to the constitution, the United States senate had made it possible for the government to tax directly the incomes of citizens of this country.

It was believed that through the action of the senate a law would be passed at the special session authorizing the immediate enactment of the measure. Although the exact terms of the act had not reached concrete form, it was thought that all incomes of $4,000 to $5,000 or under would be exempt.

For Income Tax

(By United Press Leased Wire) Washington, D.C., Feb. 4 (1913) -- President Taft would proclaim the income tax amendment a part of the constitution of the United of the United States as soon as the state department receives official written notification from three-fourths of the states that their legislatures had ratified the measure. This announcement was made at the White House.

Girl Swears She Was Held Gypsy Slave

Los Angeles, Cal., Feb. 4 (1913) -- Startling charges that Alice Mitchell was sold when seven years of age by an orphanage superintendent to a gypsy for $800 and that for eight years she had served him as a slave were made to the police and humane officers by Alice Mitchell, 15 years old.

Miss Mitchell declared she had since been compelled to pose as a fortune teller and dancing and singing girl, giving her earnings to the man and suffering frequent beatings.

The girl for some weeks had been telling fortunes in a little booth on Main street. The other day, she says, she earned $21, which she took to her master, but the latter was not satisfied with this, she declared, and she was compelled to go to some place, the location of which she does not know, and dance and sing before men until a late hour.

The arresting officer was told of the case by a girl in whom the child had confided. The humane society was called in, the child turned over tot he juvenile court and an investigation begun. The police were seeking the gypsy.   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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