Telephone monopoly sparks aldermanic clash over rates
The report on Chicago telephone affairs criticizes the city hearings as biased toward the company. Opponents call for cheaper service and public ownership, while supporters argue for higher rates to fund improvements and pay for pay stations. Articulation of monopoly power and calls for reform dominate local discourse.
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Telephone Company
Marshall Field & Co
Northwestern Railroad
Chicago
Council
Chicago American
New York Times
New York City
Armour
Great Packet of
New York
United States
Klondike
Bell
Lous
Bse
Telephone Trust
Charles F. DeWoody
Department of Justice Secret Service
Bell Telephone
Wickersham
Bel Syndicate
West
DeWoody
Chicago Daily News
Information Bureau
Inquirer
San Francisco bribery case ties Pacific Telegraph to supervisors
The 1910 report shows the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company bribed San Francisco Supervisors to block Home Telephone and other rivals from obtaining a franchise. Officials were paid about $50,000 in total. The Pacific company executives testified before the Grand Jury as the investigation unfolded.
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San Francisco
Oliver Grand Jury
Board of Supervisors
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company
Home Telephone Company
Penny telephone reform takes hold in Chicago and Detroit
Editorial attacks high telephone rates and a new short ring scheme. It urges aldermen to lower prices, end residence versus business charges, and introduce penny telephones with a 3 30 monthly rate and 1 cent per surplus outgoing message on single party lines. The piece lambasts the phone company for extracting nickels and questions who truly runs the city.
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Harrison
Council
Chicago
American Telephone Trust
Mour
Harriman
Kennedy Todd
de Forest
New York
Chicago Subway
Subway
Bell
Armour
National Post Office
Detroit
Common Council
Roosevelt and Taft face off as Chicago gears up for primary
Chicago political scene heats as Aldermanic nominations loom next Tuesday. Supporters trumpet Busse for Taft while Roosevelt backers move headquarters to La Salle. Candidates across wards include Lampert in Twenty third Ward and Weber in Twenty sixth Ward, with townsfolk urged to vote and attend Saturday meetings at Randolph and Hotel Congress.
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Miles J. Devine
Randolph Street
The
County Democracy
Robert E. Burke
Devine
Roosevelt League
Congress Hotel
Hotel la Salle
Ald
Carl Murray
League
Taft
Senator Cullom
Bernard F. Weber
Chicago
Twenty-sixth
Weber
Twentysixth
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By &. J. Lehman
William Kent
Charles Twigg
John F. Smalski
Northwestern Trust & Savings Bank
Ethene
Fred A. Busse
Roosevelt
Peter Bartzen
Chronicle
Washington Street
Committee On
J. Franklin Murphy
New Jersey
William Stone
Missouri
James J. Townsend
Deneen Republican Club
New Twentieth Ward
Deneen
Charles W. Vail
Superior Court
A. H. Fink
8. Klein
William Cohen
M. Cohen
Jacob Be Bosky
Patrick J. Devlin
Thirtyfirst
State Board of Equalization
Rolla R. Longenecker
Joel M. Longenecker
Cook County
William McKinley
A. A. Worsley
Albert J. Hope
John R. Caverly
John J. Ge Fasbey
Congress
M. J. Faherty
R. Edward J. Queeny
Third Ward
Judge Dunne
George W. Paullin
Sanitary Board
Joseph F. Connery
County Recorder
Thomas J. Ahern
James R. Buckley
Buckley
B. F. Weber
Mr. Weber
Joseph Grein
Edward Butler
Frank Seif
John M. Collins
Walter Clyde Jones
Hugh
Magill
Charleston, Ill
James 8. Hopkins
Charles Martin
Oscar F. Mayer
John E. Owens
Henry Utpatel
Edward F. Dunne
Thomas F. Scully
Cyril R. Jandus
Peter F. Galligan
Seventeenth
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