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...afternoon last week two well-known Yazooans stood talking near the corner of Jefferson and Main, in front of the flyspecked window of Nector's Restaurant, where the town's bachelors go to drink their breakfast Coca-Cola. One was Mayor John T. Stricklin, oldtime politician. The other was Dentist R. E. Hawkins whom white-thatched, bespectacled Frank R. Birdsall, member of the State tax commission, editor & publisher of three-times-a-week Sentinel had supported in February's mayoralty election. Dentist Hawkins lost the election but through no fault of Editor Birdsall. The Sentinel had bitterly...
...Mayor Stricklin got into his automobile, drove out Main Street to his son's undertaking parlors. There, surrounded by shrouds and coffins, police found him, with one of his own bullets through his head, dead...