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Municipal ownership push for Chicago telephone system
April plans place referendum on municipal operation of the automatic telephone network. Alderman Bauler proposes city purchase of the installed system, seeks advisory public policy vote, and battles Telephone Trust while urging rate reforms. He cites public ownership as a path to cheaper, universal service. council action and new reports loom.
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Bauler
Chicago Telephone Company
Ald
Telephone Trust
Chicago
Illinois Tunnel Company
Grafters Union
Harrison
Council
American Telephone Trust
Tobacco Trust
Standard Oil Trust
Chicago American
New York Times
New York City
Armour
Packer
New York
United States
Klondike
Bell
Harriman
Kennedy Todd
de Forest
Chicago Subway
Subway
National Post Office
Central
Ald. Britten
23D
Sexton
Corporation
Charles M. Thomson
Herman J. Bauler
Edward W. Bemis
W. J. Hagenah
Ald. Bauler
Seventy Cent Gas League
Hibernian Banking Association
Graham & Sons
Union Trust Company
South Chicago Savings Bank
The
Commercial National
Continental National
Drovers Deposit National
Ilinois Trust and Savings
Fort Dearborn National
Northwestern Trust and Savings Bank
South Side State Bank
Merchants’ Bank
National Bank of the Republic
State Bank of Chicago
Alvara