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...Lancaster, Calif., Chinese Butcher Yackie Mun-choo was fined $150, forbidden to sell meat for two years. Reason: to prevent his hamburger from spoiling, Butcher Yackie embalmed...
...waistline: over 6 ft.). Because Worth sprained his ankle on the voyage from Australia, he could not mount the ship's gangway at Boulogne, had to be hoisted aboard by derrick, unloaded the same way. Asked how he met his wife, Barney Worth replied: "She came into my butcher's shop for some meat. She bought a lot, and I liked her idea of an appetite. ... It was love at first sight." An average Worth daily diet: 12 Ibs. of meat, five loaves of bread, three cabbages, many a goody...
...University Press completed a monumental ten-year job-reprinting in 22 facsimile volumes (price $88) a complete file of Defoe's Review, a weekly, biweekly and triweekly newspaper of opinion which he wrote singlehanded between 1704 and 1713. Before becoming a newspaperman at 45, Defoe had been a butcher, hosiery factor, wine importer, government lottery agent, tile manufacturer, South Sea speculator, bankrupt and convict. In 1703 he spent three days in the stocks (see cut) for publishing an annoying political pamphlet. Between jail terms he plumped mightily for freedom of the press, took secret cash handouts from ministers...
...Jewish retailers 30,000 strong closed their delicatessen, kosher butcher shops and pharmacies in Jewish sections of Metropolitan New York for 60 minutes last week. Some of them hung out signs: PEOPLE OF AMERICA, STOP HITLER NOW, AND SAVE CIVILIZATION! Bigger retail establishments like R. H. Macy & Co. made formal denials of rumors that they would fire their Aryan employes, replace them with refugee Jews...