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Chicago Telegraph Debate on Municipal Ownership and Rates
Editorials from Chicago papers urge municipal ownership of telephones, condemn the Telephone Trust, and call for rate reforms. The piece cites Aldermen Bauler and Sexton and references Armour interests backing cheaper, automatic service and possible public franchise changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ald
Herman J. Bauler
Chicago Telephone Company
Bauler
Ald. Bauler
Telephone Trust
Chicago
J. Ogden Armour
Illinois Tunnel Company
Grafters Union
Mlinois Tunnel Company
Harrison
Council
American Telephone Trust
Tobacco Trust
Standard Oil Trust
Chicago American
New York Times
New York City
Armour
Packer
New York
United States
Bell
Hhs
Harriman
Kennedy Todd
de Forest
Chicago Subway Fas
Subway
Corporation
Sexton
Charles M. Thomson
Edward W. Bemis
W. J. Hagenah
Seventy Cent Gas League
Penny Telephone League
Central
Ald. Britten
23D
Ita
San Francisco
Oliver Grand Jury
Board of Supervisors
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company
Home Telephone Company