Telephone rates and general reform clash in Chicago
City editors weaponize the telephone issue against a powerful monopoly. An aldermanic panel weighs rate hikes and expanded service while critics decry the Bell trust and call for cheaper, clearer, and more accountable local phone service.
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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
Citisens
United States
Citisen
Bell
Sub
Econo
National Post Office
Tephone Trust
Charles F. DeWoody
Department of Justice Secret Service
Bell Telephone
Wickersham
Bell Syndicate
West
DeWoody
Detroit
Common Council
Chicago Political Notes Preview Primary and Nominating Contests
The piece outlines Aldermanic primary results with 112327 votes. Democrats 76126 Republicans 36689 and smaller parties rest. It lists candidates for municipal judge and various county and state posts, notes party maneuvers, tours by Judge Dunne, Revell's call for banking reform, formation of committees, and upcoming filing deadlines through 1912. It emphasizes Chicago’s long ballot and local leadership contests shaping the spring and fall political scene.
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Elor
Munich
Jdermaniac
Congressional Canron
General Cleo
United States
Eee
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J. Lehman
Seeb Sedeens
San Francisco
Oliver Grand Jury
Board of Supervisors
Pacifi Telephone and Tele
Graph Company
Home Telephone Company
Ce Ae
Chicago Daily News
Information Bureau
Inquirer
T18
Harry A. Gibbons
John E. Owens
Alexander H. Revell
Roosevelt National Committee
Peoria
Illinois
National Citizens’ League
Revell
National Monetary Commission
Robert E. Burke
Baltimore
Richard T. Hanrahan
Morris Wilson
Peter Crot
Fred Ewert
John H. Dullard
John D. McGregor
N. G. Conybear
Stanley K. Glomski
Joseph DeStefano
Richard C. Magor
Walter V. Magnus
Albert H. Putney
Sixth Ward
Deneon Club
John. F. Holland
Wallace G. Clark
John.r. Thompson
John E. W. Wayman
Clark
Thompson
Deneen
Wayman
William D
Munhall For
Deneén
Bloomington
Ambrose A. Worsley
J. C. Vaughan
James R. Mann
Congress
Vaughan
William D. Munhall
Democrats
James J. Townsend
Mr. Townsend
Telephone Company
Joseph C. Blaha
Springfield
John C. Cannon
Twenty-sixth Ward
Joseph F. Connery
County Recorder
Benjamin M. Mitchell
Boston University Law School
Massachusetts
Bar of Illinois
Illinois College of Law
James Hamilton Lewis
Judge Dunne
Hotel
Sherman
William L. O'Connell
John R. Caverly
Edward Ougood Brown
Cook Onae
John E.wens
Connery
Donald R. Richberg
Board of Review
Oliver L. Watson
C. L. Lapmann
John F. Schmidt
Alexander Fyffe
Charles Ringer
Springfeld
George W. Paullin
Edward Osgood Brown
William Kolacek
West Park Board
Charles Twigg
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