MISSOURI: Little Fight

Up to last week the factional split between Democratic friends & foes of St. Louis' Mayor Bernard F. ("Barney") Dickmann had resulted in nothing more than bad blood, hot words. Last week both sides got their dander up over a city-wide poll on a $7,500,000 bond issue to build a memorial to Thomas Jefferson beside the Mississippi. Following day City Market Master James O. Stubbs and State Representative Lawrence J. Fontana, both Dickmann men, marched with two friends into the office of City Recorder of Deeds John P. English, head of the anti-Dickmann...

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