Telephone Trust and municipal ownership debate in Chicago
Expanded discussion of telephone rates, municipal ownership advocates, and opposition to the Bell monopoly. Aldermen, including Bauler, push for rate reform and a public referendum while opponents cite trust power and civic corruption. Editorials praise Armour and New York competition as models for cheaper, broader service.
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Marshall Field @ Co
Northweeterla Railroad
Telephone Trust
Chicago Daily News
National Senate
Interstate Commerce Comittee
Kenyon
Ald
Herman J. Bauler
Chicago Telephone Company
Bauler
Harrison
Council
Chicago
American Telephone Trust
Tobacco Trust
Standard Oil Trust
Telephone
Chicago American
New York Times
New York City
Armour
Great Packet
New York
United States
Klondike
Bell
Telephone Company
Telephone Monopoly
I den
Harriman
Kennedy Todd
de Forest
Chicago Subway
Subway
National Post Office
San Francisco
Oliver Grand Jury
Board of Supervisors
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company
Home Telephone Company
San Franciso
William Kent
Douglas Sutherland
Civic Federation of Chicago
Twentyfourth Ward
Republican Club
Sutherland
Congressional Candidates by Districts List
The woods are full of congressional candidates. Here they are by districts. 1 Madden. 829 Michi Frank H. Childs 2241 Calu.
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M. B. Madden
Michi Frank H. Childs
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Political pleas and newspaper endorsements in Chicago
The piece argues for various candidates in Chicago politics, naming Carl B. Fornburg Alderman backers, James B. Hopkins, Thomas A. Smyth, Col James Hamilton Lewis, Albert J. Hopkins, Mathias Aller, Zina R. Carter, and Edward Osgood Brown. It references fears about the telephone company, city forester waste, and urges support for multiple district and state offices in upcoming elections.
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Ald. Britten
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Sexton
Corporation
Charles M. Thomson
E. C. Wentworth
Herbert
Metcalf
Pliny B. Smith
Michael B. Maher
H. B. Eckles
She St
Joseph H. Greer
Michi- Ban
Joseph R. Burres
Rod James R. Mann
Merrill Eh
Louis J. Behan
Prairie
Morton D. Hulls
Stephen A. Foster
James W. Walker
Orva G. Williams
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J. C. Vaughan
Jefferson
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P. J. O'Reilly
John F. Delaney
Chas. G. Kindred
Ceveressessedeesees
Clifford Cox
Stewart Av
Michael G
Anton Cer
Edward J. Rainey
FE. Furlong
John E. Conerty
Center
M. T. Cullerton
Ashland
Scott Vandyke
Hastings St
Joseph J. Kral
Fred W. Lockt
Dem
Carl L. Barnet
Alderman A. W. Fulton
W. J. Moxley
Rod J. C. Cosgrove
Independence
Adelbert McPherson
W. Adame
John J. Bryant
Riverside
Edmund J. Stack
J. Clark
W. Jackson
George Chant
Melrose Park
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Mason
Charles J, Hutchinson
Edward Ablawede
William A. Peterson
Daniel J. Coffey
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T. Gallagher
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Max Yarber
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Carroll
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Lynden Evans
Astor Bt
James P. Brennan
Mildred
Oscar Melson
J. E. Boynton
LaSalle
Frank Shiflersmith
N. Clark
Bon
George W. Paullin
C. M. Moderwell
Everett Marsh
George E. Foss
Gordon Com
Cscee
Rod. C. DeLang
Glencoe
George P. Enghard
Evans- Ton
R. J. Finnegan
Minolla
Filng
Ldermantic
Congress
County Board of Assessors
State Board of Equalization
Cook County
Beach Land
William Ritchie
Sanitary District
Thomas A. Smith
John C. Spry
Albert G. Wheeler
Isaac N. Powell
Albert G. Wheter
John R. Caverly
Fred W. Blocks
Francis 8. Peabody
Andrew J. Ryan
Block
Washington
Carl B. Fornburg
North Side
Thomas W. Gilmore
Albert J. Hopkins
United States Senate
Illinois
James 8. Hopkins
Thomas A. Smyth
The
Sanitary Board
Col
James Hamilton Lewis
Edward Osgood Brown
Outer Harbor
Mathias Aller
Ilinois
A. Zina R. Carter
Thomas F. Scully
Edward F. Dunne
William L. O'Connell
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