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Chicago Eagle

Location

Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Oct 28, 1911

Page

2

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.

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.

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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