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Telegraph Antitrust Debate Spurs City Phone Publicity
Chicago readers weigh calls for municipal ownership and rate reform as aldermen push to curb the Telephone Trust. City leaders debate nickel first boxes and a new report on the telephone monopoly amid broad criticism of paid influence and graft.
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Telephone Trust
Chicago Daily News
National Senate
Interstate Commerce Comittee
Kenyon
Ald
Herman J. Bauler
Chicago Telephone Company
Bauler
Ald. Bauler
Chicago
J. Ogden Armour
Illinois Tunnel Company
Grafters Union
Harrison
Council
American Telephone Trust
Tobacco Trust
Standard Oil Trust
Chicago American
New York Times
New York City
Armour
Great Packet
New York
United States
Klondike
Bell
Bse
Harriman
Kennedy Todd
de Forest
Chicago Subway
Subway
Mies
National Post Office
Central
Ald. Britten
Sexton
Corporation
Charles M. Thomson
Fred A. Britten
Hoover
Britten
San Francisco
Oliver Grand Jury
Board of Supervisors
Pacifi Telephone and Telegraph Company
Home Telephone Company
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company
William Kent
Peter Bartzen
Francia
Wilson
Peet
Peter Schmitz
State Board of Equalization
Springfield
Cook County
Daniel L. Cruke
Buffalo
N. Y
University of New York
Chicago College of Law
Lake Forest University
Great Lakes
Miesiasippi
Ohio
Joseph H. Fitch
Superior Court
Bar Association
Fitch
Maine
Ogden School
Central High School
Chicago University
Union College of Law
Richard Prendergast
Supreme Court
Elizabeth Goohegan
Winona Avenue
Chicago Bar Association
Chicago Law Institute
The
Troquois Club