Telephone monopoly foe urged to cut rates and expand service
A lengthy critique accuses the Telephone Trust of price gouging and seeks government action. It cites Chicago and New York figures, Armor interests, and calls for automatic cheap service, rate reductions, and public franchise pressure to curb monopolistic practices.
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Telephone Trust
Rifie
Harrison
Council
Chicago
American Telephone Trust
Chicago American
New York Times
New York City
Armour
Packer
New York
United States
Klondike
Senenze
Tse
Harriman
Kennedy Todd
de Forest
Chicago Subway
Subway
Bell
National Post Office
Charles F. DeWoody
Department of Justice Secret Service
Political Talk Behind the County Campaign Forecasts
A crowded field of Republican and Democratic hopefuls lines up for county and city offices. Key figures include Judge Dunne backers, bailiff candidates, and ward by ward slates. Roosevelt and Wilson supporters mobilize as committees open in Chicago and Evanston.
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Lewis Rinaker
Machine
Samuel A. Ettelson
Third Ward
John R. Newcomer
Joseph R. Burres
Sixth Ward
Charles E. Erbstein
Fred W. Blocks
Board of Review
Chicago
Bernard F. Weber
Penny telephones to be set in Detroit and Chicago
Detroit dispatch explains plans for penny telephones with 50 percent local rate reduction for the average user. The ordinance proposes 3.30 per month and 1 cent per outgoing message after 200 per month on single party lines, no limit on incoming calls, with hearings underway.
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Detroit
Chicago
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Torney
Ita
Akersham Gation
Bell Syndicate
West
DeWoody
San Francisco
Oliver Grand Jury
Board of Supervisors
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company
Home Telephone Company
William Kent
Chicago Daily News
Information Bureau
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Frank O. Lowden
Illinois
James Phage
Republican County
Judge Dunne
Dunne
Joseph Grein
Alexander H. Revell
National Roosevelt Committee
National Committee
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National
Roosevelt Committee
Roosevelt
Rivers McNeill
McNeill
Edward F. Dunne
Sherman
Henry von Meeteren
Adam Ortseifen
Ernest Hummel
Emil Demme
Charles Christman
John Haderlein
Eugene Block
Evanston
Democratic Club
Woodrow Wilson
Indorsed
Rivers McNeil
Congress
Tenth
Oscar F. Mayer
People For State Treasurer
Henry Utpatel
Thomas F. Scully
The
Hotel Sherman
William JL. O'Connell
John J. Geraghty
B. F. Weber
John W. Rainey
Cutting
Joseph C. Blaha
B. H. Roche
Sanitary Board
War James
Hopkins
Cook County
Cyril R. Jandus
Harry L. Shaver
John K. Owens
Haderlein
Edward Osgood Brown
Ing
Albert J. Hopkins
John R. Caverly
M. J. Faherty
Edward J. Queeny
Patrick J. Devlin
State Board of Equalization
Rolla R. Longenecker
Joel M. Longenecker
William McKinley
A. A. Worsley
George W. Paullin
Joseph F. Connery
County Recorder
John M. Collins
Thomas J. Ahern
Henry P. Bergen
Erngt Hummel
Charles F. Gunther
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