Municipal control and legal fights over Chicago telephone rates
A long editorial recounts Chicago debates over a Telephone Trust monopoly, municipal ownership proposals, and a campaign to lower rates. It highlights Alderman Bauler’s penny telephone idea, council actions, and calls for a public policy vote, plus critiques of the Telephone Trust and references to Armour’s potential role in cheaper service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herman J. Bauler
Ald
Bayler
Edward W
Bemis
W. J. Hagenah
Ald. Bayler
Seventy Cent Gas League
Nickel first phones probed for council action
The city legal department prepared an amendment to bar the nickel first telephone practice. Alderman Fred A. Britten and Assistant Corporation Counsel Hoover drafted the measure for presentation when the council reconvenes September 25. Britten says the idea would block using a coin to reach an operator for police or fire alarms.
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City Legal Department
Fred A. Britten
Hoover
Britten
Chicago Superior Court Candidates Affirm Their Qualifications
Ross C. Hall is qualified in every way for a seat on the bench and his election as judge of the Superior Court on November 7 will be a worthy one Charles M. Foell has proven by his record in the City Council that he is worthy to sit on the Superior Court bench. Denis E. Sullivan, Democratic nominee for Judge of the Superior Court is well known to the people of Chicago as a lawyer, a public official and a citizen.
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Chicago
Pew
Telephone Trust
Harrison
Council
American Telephone Trust
Tobacco Trust
Standard Oil Trust
Chicago American
New York Times
New York City
Armour
Packer
New York
United States
Klondike
Bell
Telephone Company
Telephone Monopoly
Harriman
Kennedy Todd
de Forest
Chicago Subway
Subway
National Post Office
San Francisco
Oliver Grand Jury
Board of Supervisors
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company
Home Telephone Company
William Kent
Thomas Taylor
Circuit Court
Cook County
Knox College
Galesburg
Gnothautti Literary Society
Taylor
Harvard University Law School
Suffolk County
Mass
Boston
Burdette & Gooch
Chicago, University, Law
City
Hamilton
Marquette
Illinois Humane Society
Onwentsia Club
American Bar Associations
Deneen
Congress On
Mr.Taylor
Hubbards _ Woods
Winnetka
Ross C. Hall
Superior Court
Rushville
Ill
Macomb
Georgetown College
Washington, D. C
Hall
Ashland Block
General Assembly
Ilinois
Oak Park
Daniel L. Cruke
John P. McGoorty
Marcus Kavanagh
John J. Coburn
Dent
Joseph H. Fitch
Hugo Pam
Thomas Taylor, Jr
Denis E. Sullivan
Mr. Sullivan
Kewanee, Ill
Lake Forest University
McDonnold, Sullivan & Jar
Charles M. Walker
Sullivan
John G
Carlisle
Treasury
Cleveland
Winthrop Avenue
Charles M. Foell
D. & Sullivan
The
Democrate
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Ald. Britten
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Charles M. Thomson
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Daniel L. Cruice