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Newspaper

Chicago Eagle

Location

Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Jul 15, 1911

Page

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Telephone Trust War Sparks Chicago City Fight

A heated editorial drive denounces the Telephone Trust as extortionists opposes aldermen and the mayor in Chicago. It urges investigation, calls for new reports, warns of rate hikes, and notes political reshaping as ward redistricting and elections loom.

Telephone Trust Chicago J. Ogden Armour Alwaya Ilinois Tunnel Company Graftera Union Illinois Tunnel Company Harrison Council American Telephone Trust Tobacco Trust Standard Oil Trust Reinberg, Bauler Clettenberg Cermak, Twigg and Lawley Snow, Harding and Richert Elections Committee Felix B. Janovsky Matthias Mueller

Chicago aldermen back lake shore park plan and outer harbor boost

City council endorses filling lakefront waste land to create a large park and improve the outer harbor. Ald Foell calls for lake dump investigations and breakwaters to handle excavations. reports on waste removal costs and water supply impact requested. The plan also contemplates a city owned subway system and bond funding subject to state authority.

Chicago Charles M. Foell Commissioner of Public Works Commissioner of Health Chicago Plan Commission East 22d Ohio Street Traction Fund Sexton Council Ald B. W. Snow A. J. Fisher Judiciary Committee Corporation Counsel Building Committee Geiger Hey Young Harrison

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