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Telephone Trust under Fire as City Deliberates Rate Rise
Chicago editorial pages denounce the Telephone Trust and call for municipal action. Advocates include Alderman Britten seeking tick tick box removal and a police power ordinance to curb nickel-demanded service while praising Armour and Chicago subway receivers pushing cheaper automatic phones.
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Telephone Trust
Harrison
Council
Chicago
American Telephone Trust
Tobacco Trust
Standard Oil Trust
Telephone
Chicago American
New York Times
New York City
Armour
Packer
New York
United States
Klondike
Tlon
Bell
Harriman
Kennedy Todd
de Forest
Chicago Subway
Subway
Central
Ald. Britten
23D
Sexton
Jane
Corporation
Ald
Charles M. Thomson
San Francisco
Oliver Grand Jury
Board of Supervisors
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company
Home Telephone Company
San Franciso
William Kent
Chicago Daily News
Information Bureau
Inquirer