City Council Adopts Gas Rate Plan After Stormy Session
The Chicago city council adjourned after a heated meeting that ran past midnight. A new five year gas rate was approved at an average 70 15 cents, with 75 cents first year and 68 cents last year. The council also passed a fireworks prohibition and several other ordinances before adjourning to September 25.
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Vice Commission
Sethness
Charles O
Dibelka
James B
Huttmann
Henry W
Library Board
Roulston
Robert J
Henlus
Dr. Max
Kaycki
Philip M
Skota
Gridewell Board
Burger
A. A
John Traeger
Welsskopf
M. A
A. J. Sabath
Aller
Mathias
Home Brewing Company
Spencer
George J
Chicago Pneumatic Postal Tube Company
Foell
McWeeny Ting
Chicago Writes to Break the Bell Phone Monopoly
Chicago residents protest a Bell monopoly controlling the local telephone and Western Electrical companies. A city report claims inflated charges and forced payments. aldermen are urged to oppose rate hikes and investigation into officials’ ties to the firms.
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Bell
Local Telephone Company
The
Western Electrical Company
Bell Telephone Company
Local Telephone
Pany
Chicago
Telephone Company
Bell Monopoly
Seyferlich
Bell Telephone Monopoly
Bell Telephone
Electrical Company
Electric Company
Telephone
Telephone Patents and Trusts Stir 1911 Debate
An editorial in the Chicago Daily News July 17 1911 argues government patents used to form trusts should be forfeited. It cites Senator Kenyon urging Sherman antitrust changes and mentions Alderman Bauler and a penny telephone idea amid gas league politics and court scrutiny of rates.
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Chicago
Telephone Company
Marshall Meld & Co
Northwestern Railroad
Telephone Trust
Chicago Daily News
National Senate
Interstate Commerce Comittee
Kenyon
Ald
Herman J. Bauler
Bayler
Edward W. Bemis
W. J.,hagoyah
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Marquette Club
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Lincoln
New York
Traeger
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Traction Fund
Alexander H. Revell