Omnibus Tax Bill Pays Off In Texas Oil Boom
Texas Comptroller figures after three months of the omnibus tax bill show oil taxes outperforming estimates with July at 1,978,945 and August at 2,258,239 dollars. Utilities taxes exceeded expectations with July 105,336 and August 200,555 dollars. Cement taxes also rose from 50,740 in July to 56,873 in August. Telephone taxes diverged due to quarterly collection ending in August.
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Austin
Comptroller's Office
Texas
Cotton crop forecast sharpens decline from last year
The Agriculture Department projects this year’s cotton yield at 10,710,000 bales on Sept 1 conditions, down from 10,817,000 a month earlier and far below last year’s 12,566,000. Abandoned acreage totals 3.8 percent, with 22,633,000 acres harvestable, while Oklahoma and Texas show moisture gains and limited weevil impact.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Census Bureau
Oklahoma
Texas
Arkansas
Louisiana
New Mexico
Arizona
California
Old Mexico
Texans Smoked 860 Cigarets Per Person
Texas residents smoked 276,016,974 packages of cigarettes in the fiscal year ending Aug 3, total revenue from cigaret tax and permits $8,178,960, up from $7,428,592 the prior year. Comptroller figures note a net tax revenue increase of $752,104. The report includes a quip about narrow-necked bottles.
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Austin
Texas
State Comptroller Department
Comptroller
Three Means Paying Delinquent Taxes Explained
An official notice from the state comptroller details three methods to settle delinquent taxes for 1939 and prior years. It outlines paying all taxes with no penalty, paying on one property with a 6 percent penalty, or paying per property with an 8 percent penalty and 6 percent interest accrued since delinquency. The formula applies regardless of number of properties or years owed, but 1940 taxes delinquent after July 1 are not included.
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John
State Comptroller of Public Accounts
John Doe
Great Seal of the United States Adopted June 20 1872
Description of the Great Seal showing an eagle with spread wings a blue shield thirteen arrows olive branch and motto in the beak E Pluribus Unum and a halo of thirteen stars. It notes seals as authentic evidence of acts and the seal symbolic of the American people.
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United States
Congress
Lonesome Bill Satirizes War Talk and Army Worms
Dear Editor Lonesome Bill notes Army worms on his cotton field trained like soldiers in jest, mocks Hitler Mussolini and U S leaders, jokes about weather and labor strikes, and imagines sending worms to army staff to teach discipline while urging practical farming.
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Hitler
Mussolini
Roosevelt
Churchill
Hit
Muss
Cio Lewis
the Devil
Wheeler
Lindbergh
Ninteen
Lonesome Bill
Inventions of Steel and Machines Lift Giants
The text notes commercial steel enabled steam and electric engines allowing mechanical hoisting of massive loads. It compares slave labor on construction to modern workers operating machines and cites the Empire State Building’s 102 stories raised in 15 months with steel wire ropes, wheels, engines, and motors.
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Pyramids
Empire State Building
New York City
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