One day last week stenographers and visitors in the office of Cook County Clerk Michael J. Flynn, who issues Chicago's marriage licenses, peered excitedly at a window across grimy North Clark Street where shone a bright new sign. Advertising the services of a justice of the peace, an office which Chicago discontinued in 1905, it puzzled the county clerk's assistants until reporters crossed the street to find behind the window, complacently waiting for business, David R. Mandell, this year elected justice of the peace in the proletarian Cook County suburb of...
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