Illinois Mayors Seek Higher Taxes and New Limits
Forty Illinois mayors in Chicago urge the legislature to raise real estate taxes and double or quadruple them, push taxes on signs windows houses and lights, and repeal Chicago’s bonded indebtedness limit. Armour joins Midwest rail interests as a director while questions arise over personal property taxes and Beef Trust enforcement. New York shows far higher personal property taxes.
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Armour
Trials Central Railroad
Road
Stuyvesant Fish
The
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Armour & Co
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Sunday saloon battle sparks Chicago political clash
The piece rails against Sunday closing advocates led by Dry Wind Verein and allied groups. It warns 3,000 saloons would close and tax revenue fall by $3,000,000, urging taxpayers to resist prohibition while recalling Lincoln. It notes Democratic primaries and lists alderman candidates and Governor hopeful John B. McGoorty.
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Heaven and
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Anti-Saloon League
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Wasser Muckers’ Union
Dry Wind Verein
Arthur Burrage
Farwell Cadets
Abraham Lincoln
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Consolidated Electric Light and Power Company
United Electric Company
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Kansas City Railroad
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Patriock
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Considine
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William EB. Dover
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Michael D. Dougherty
John Haderlein
Peter Reinberg
Daniel Herlihy
Joseph Swift
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Henry T. Bergen
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Patrick J. Nolan
Bernard J. Mahony
John BP. McGoorty
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