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Tax dodgers and tax payers clash over Chicago wealth
A Chicago piece rails at Armour Swift Marshall Field & Co and other big firms for dodging personal property taxes while poorer residents pay. It cites foreign stock, ad valorem doubts, and calls for a crackdown as officials, newspapers, and lake vessels tax rules spark a broader reform push.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Armour, Swift
Marshall Field & Co
Goodrich Company
Chicago
Armour
Chicago Evening American
Basel
Board of Assessors
Board of Review
Theis
Stock Yards
Union Stock Yards Company of
Omaha
Armour Interests
Kansas City Railway & Light Company
New Jersey Corporation
J. Ogden Armour and Associates
Fowler Brothers (Limited
Englsh Corporation
Laula F. Swift
G. HL
Hammond Company
Michigan Corporation
Armour Car Lines Company
New ‘Jersey Corporation
J. Ogden Armour and
Asso
Ciates
Armour Grain Company
J. Ogden Armour
Michigan Avenue
Packingtown Kings
Marshall Field & Company
Lincoln
Goodrich Steamboat Company
Duluth
Minnesota
Lakes
Auditorium Annex
BE. E. Woodbury
Gov. Hughes
New York
Fred Warner
Michigan
Great Lakes
Woodbury
New York State Tax Commission
Abraham Lincoln
Chicago Tribune
Marshall Field
Goodrich Docks
Pete Peterson
Milwaukee Avenue
Bull Snyder