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Newspaper
Chicago Eagle
Location
Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1899
Page
2
A bold condemnation of the Chicago Gas Trust portrays it as a coercive monopoly robbing taxpayers, hospitals, orphans, and churches while refusing city payment for street use. It urges voters to expose bribery, curb the trust, and defend public welfare against monopolistic power.
A survey of future mobility compares armored cars to rail and street transport for military use while lampooning a burglar baby theory from literature. It notes railway data from 1908 and discusses church hats versus theater etiquette, then warns about poisonous wild cherry leaves harming cattle and prussic acid in pastures.
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