Armour and McRoberts Under Fire Over City Taxation
A Chicago op ed charges Armour interests and allied boards push a high pressure water plan to fund subway and street schemes. It details J Ogden Armour and Samuel McRoberts wealth, holdings across Armour & Company Kansas City lines and Kansas City Electric, and criticizes assessor figures contrasted with vast corporate assets and potential tax gains for the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Armour
Chicago
San Francisco
Busse
Building Managers’ Association
Chicago Health Department
Chicago Association of Commerce
May Grand Jury
Chicago Real Estate Board
Chicago Credit Men's Association
City Club of Chicago
Chicago Architects’ Business Association
Chicago Underwriters’ Association
Annonia
Board of Local Improvements
Committee On Local Transportation
Subways
Aronmy
Kansas City
Kansas
Lelty
Kan
Tle
Chicago Board of Assexcors
J. Ogden Armour
Chicago Subway Company
Armour & Company
Kansas City Railway and Light Company
Armour Car Lines
Armour Grain Company
Central Leather Company
Continental National Bank
G. A. Hammond Company
Hammond Packing Company
National Packing Company
Stock Yards Savings Bank
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Kansas City Electric Light Company
Insurance values vs real valuation at Marshall Field
Assessors value Marshall Field & Company at 6 million, taxed on one fifth. Insurance coverage totals 13.5 million across State Street, Wabash Avenue, Wholesale and Madison Street, suggesting real value near 10.5 million higher than assessed. The note implies insurance covers 80 percent of true value.
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Marshall Field & Company
State Street
Wabash Avenue
Madison Street
Whd
Tax justice in Chicago markets and dodgers' burden
How does the small suburban grocer who pays tax on his full store value feel about big buyers not being taxed on one tenth of their real value. How does the retail butcher Ike it. How do soap makers like it that Armour pays no tax on the entire plant. Governments by tax dodgers and for tax dodgers must end in Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Armour
A. H L. Hornley
Austin Baptist Church
Mr. Hornley
Elton
Indict the Beef Trust Demand for New Action Against Trust
A vocal plea presses for federal indictment of the Beef Trust amid rising food prices. It argues past prosecutions failed due to immunity and urges renewed charges with substantial fines to curb prices and force accountability, labeling the trust as the worst of all.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beet Trust
Federal
Grand Jury
United States
Beef Trust
Tobacco Trust
Railroad Trust
Oil ‘Trust
Ammonia Tank Victims and Grand Jury Inaction
The piece notes victims from ammonia explosions at packing plants and laments grand juries rarely act on the killings. It questions why authorities fail to pursue justice for seventeen men harmed by these incidents.
Charter Gang Rears Speaker Shurtleff to Chicago
The charter group brings Speaker Shurtleff to Chicago to advocate for their cause as locals anticipate a tough push from what they view as typical legislators.
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Charter Gang
Speaker Shurtleff
Chicago
Swift & Company Assessed Lower by Board of Assessors
Swift & Company, a major corporation, reported over $2,000,000 of personal property on its possession list at New Year’s Eve but was assessed for only $8,000,000 by the Board of Assessors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Assessors
Armour & Company
Chicago
Armour Soap Plant
Armour
Pullman Company
Ita Palace
G. F. Swift
Edward F. Swift
Louis F. Swift
Lake Forest
J. Ogden Armour
Marshall Field
Field
O. W. Potter
P. D. Armour, Jr
Board of Review
Swift & Company
Great Corporation
Assessors Urge Armour Swift Firms to File Schedules
The Board of Assessors urges the Armour Swift group to file schedules next spring in accordance with the law. If they refuse to obey the how the assessors will enforce the law themselves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Assessors
Armour-Swift
Union Stock Yards Company of Omaha Limited
The Union Stock Yards Company of Omaha Limited is a Chicago owned corporation capitalized at 7.5 million dollars. It is presented as a notable business entity in the era's commercial notices.
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The
Union Stock Yards Company, of
Omaha
Limited
Chicago
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J. Ogden Armour Rockefeller
Cook County Board of Assessors
Mr. Armour
Amour
Harriman
Railway Colossus
Samuel McRoberts
Kanaag City
Kanaas City
Westport
Independence
Argentine
Rosedale
McRoberts
Consolidated Electric Light and Power Company
United Electric Company
Sas City
Samuel Me Roberts
Daily News
Washington Porter
the Beef Trust
Uncle Sam
Lovejoy
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