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Young messenger in downtown St. Louis 3 Two small boys behind a dilapidated building in St. Louis 6 Boys on the railing behind tenements 13 Residents in the yard of a run-down building 15 Young boys at the outhouse 20 Boys on the doorstep of a county poorhouse in 1917 24 Drawing of Robert Brestol on his vegetable wagon 33 Drawing of George William Thornton 43 Boys shooting craps in a St. Louis street in 1910 47 A St. Louis street boy in Juvenile Court for truancy 65 Drawing of Bernard Mussman, top-selling newsboy 70 Boys and driver with a vehicle from Father Dunne’s Newsboys’ Home 76 Drawing of Tommie and Sylvester Gleason 85 A family in front of its flimsy dwelling in Hooverville 90 Cartoon showing St. Louis’s gang wars 97 Empty lot as playground during the Great Depression 111 Portrait of a boy with the city as a backdrop 121 Drawing of a despondent boy 129 Illustrations We may either smother the divine fire of youth or we may feed it. We may either stand stupidly staring as it sinks into a murky fire of crime and flares into the intermittent blaze of folly or we may tend it into a lambent flame with power to make clean and bright our dingy city streets. —Jane addams ...

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