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...Newark, N. J., Mae C. Collins, 307 pounds, waddled into a butcher shop. On the walls hung red, juicy, uncooked animals. Under the glass counter reposed cool, damp, bulging joints of beef. On the counter, in the icebox, lay bloody fowl; flaccid livers; grisly, delicious knuckles; dainty, pink and white lamb chops. The gullet of Mae C. Collins gaped a little. Her small, pleasant, piggy eyes, twinkling behind rolls of fat as round and red as hamburgers, finally fixed on a ponderous porterhouse steak. Seizing it, she waddled out of the butcher shop...
...Lihme pantry yielded cakes. The Lihme icebox yielded a clove-fretted sugar ham-and bottles marked "Frontenac Export Ale." Mr. Healy and friends disposed themselves on antique gilt chairs in the Lihme dining-room and gnawed the ham without benefit of cutlery. When ale had washed down ham, one of them flung the ham bone through the glass panel of the pantry door. The bone lodged amid the china on a pantry shelf and Mr. Healy, feeling exceedingly "good," started jumping up and down in the dining-room, swinging his arms, shouting drunkenly...
...Manhattan, police were informed by telephone that "200 men are murdering each other" in a Bowery speakeasy. The strong-arm squad found a large room full of tumbling, bashing, roaring, drunken men whom they described as "bummers." Tables, floor and an icebox were strewn with forms knocked unconscious by fists, feet and drinks at 20? each. Next day the police arraigned 133 Bowery derelicts, the largest number of culprits that ever appeared in the Tombs court on a single complaint. What could the judge do with them? All were sobered: They would crowd the jail. The workhouse would take them...
...know that the White House icebox was a primitive one of shaggy lumber...
Meanwhile, Science spawned new wonders; Industry zoomed ahead. Along came Abraham Lincoln and an improved icebox. Then followed Grover Cleveland and Calvin Coolidge (in 1924) with "bigger and better" refrigerators in the White House. But, it is Mr. Coolidge who brings the dawn of the great electrical era. The first event was the famed electric hobby horse ("camelephant"), upon which the President keeps fit. (TIME, Feb. 23, 1925.) Recently a new electric elevator was installed and also, mirabile dictu, an electric refrigerator system† with finny copper cooling coils and four one-half horsepower compressors. This equipment is equivalent...