STATES & CITIES
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In Chicago one afternoon last week some 5,000 schoolchildren, egged on by their teachers, paraded to Grant Park near the city's lakefront. There they burned in effigy a wicked banker who would not buy city tax warrants so the teachers could be paid long-due salaries. The effigy did not look much like anyone, but it had a corncob pipe in its mouth and it was supposed to be Charles Gates Dawes.
Chicago's Press ignored the incident, and four days later a lot of the same schoolchildren were in another...
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