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Telegraph Trusts and municipal phone plans roil Chicago politics
A Chicago editorial bashes the Telephone Trust and urges municipal ownership or lower rates. It cites Alderman Bauler’s penny phone plan, calls for a public referendum, and reports on recent council battles over nickel telephones and rate hikes. It notes Armour’s potential to spur cheap service and criticizes graft and corruption linked to phone franchises.
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Ald
Herman J. Bauler
Chicago Telephone Company
Bauler
Telephone Trust
Chicago
Illinois Tunnel Company
Grafters Union
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
Wss
Harriman
Kennedy Todd
de Forest
Chicago Subway
Subway
National Post Office
City Legal Department
Fred A. Britten
Hoover
Britten
San Francisco
Oliver Grand Jury
Board of Supervisors
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company
Home Telephone Company
Seventy Cent Gas League
Edward W. Bemis
W. J. Hagenah
Bayler
Penny Telephone League
William Kent
Central
Ald. Britten
2Nd Ward
Sexton
Daniel L. Crutce
Buffalo
N. Y
University of New York
Chicago College of Law
Lake Forest University
Great Lakes
Mississippi
Ohio