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Tax Inequities Highlight Armour Wealth in Chicago
A Chicago opinion argues J Ogden Armour’s personal property is vastly under assessed at 200000 while Armour & Company and related holdings total over 120 million in wealth. The piece urges the Board of Review to probe Armour and allied directors Samuel McRoberts I P Darlington and others about corporate stock owned by Chicagoans and to close tax dodges in the packing industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
J. Ogden Armour
Marshall Field
Cook County Board of Re
Mr. Armour
Lake Forest
Kansas City
Kan
Chicago Board of Abservors
Chicago Subway Company
Armour & Company
Kansas City Railway and Light Company
Armour Car Lines
Armour Grain Company
Central Leather Company
Continental National Bank
G. H, Hammond Company
Hammond Packing Company
National Packing Company
Stock Yards Savings Bank
Board of Assessors
Armour Soap Plant
Armour
Pullman Company
Swift and Company
Armour and Company
P. D. Armour
G. F. Swift
Edward F. Swift
Louis F. Swift
Lake Forest Ag
J. Ogden .Ymour
Marshal Field
Field
O. W. Potter
P. D. Armour, Jr
Board of Review
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Kansas City Electric Light
Messrs
Samuel Melroberts
Kangay City
Westport
Independence
Argentine
Rosedale
Samuel McRoberts
Kansas City Electric Light Company
McRoberts
Edison Electric Light and Power Company
Consolidated Electric Light and Power Company
United Electric Company
Kansas
Samuel McRoberta
Kansas City Railroad
Swift & Company
Great — Corporation
I. A. Carton
Mr. Carton
Union Stock Yards
Swift's Refrigerator Transportation Company
The
Union Stock Yards Company, of
Omaha
Limited
Leather Trust
New Jersey
United States Leather Company
I. P. Darlington
Henry P. Darlington
Laurence A. Carton
Arthur Meeker