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Monopoly foe fights for municipal phone control in Chicago
City debate over telephone rates and the nickel box system erupts as Aldermen Bauler and Britten push for public control or removal of tick tick pay boxes. Editorials criticize Bell monopoly while Armour and New York ideas for cheaper service gain attention. calls for reform sweep through Chicago politics ahead of 1912 elections.
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Ald
Herman J. Bauler
Chicago Telephone Company
Bauler
Ald. Bauler
Harrison
Council
Chicago
American Telephone Trust
Tobacco Trust
Telephone Trust
Chicago American
New York Times
New York City
Armour
Packer
New York
United States
Klondike
Bell Monopoly
Harriman
Kennedy Todd
de Forest
Chicago Subway
Subway
Bell
National Post Office
Central
Ald. Britten
23D
Sexton
Corporation
Charles M. Thomson
San Francisco
Oliver Grand Jury
Board of Supervisors
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company
Home Telephoneompany
William Kent