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Control of big Ingull utility to new hands
Control of the Insull utility empire passed from Samuel Insull to James Simpson, former Chicago department store messenger, who becomes head of the coast to coast and Canada electric gas utility network. Insull resigned as co receiver for Middle West Utilities as part of a broad reorganization. Six workers died in the strike era fireman killings noted in Mississippi and Louisiana.
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Samuel Ingall
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Marshall Field and Company
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Thomas Edison
Middle West Utilities
Insull Investments, Inc
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