Life Since the Baby Boom

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Fremont Older and the Gimlet

Fremont Older and the Gimlet

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In the last episode, we saw how Older engineered the election of James Phelan as Mayor, but then was bitterly disappointed when Eugene Schmitz succeeded him. He thought that Schmitz and his powerful backer, Abraham Ruef, were corrupt and set out to prove it.

Older campaigned ceaselessly against Schmitz and Ruef in the pages of The Bulletin. He was certai…

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