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...Manhattan, spurred to clean-up pitch by Mayor LaGuardia's zealous reform administration, police corralled scores of petty gamblers, slot machine & punchboard operators. Last week at Louis Gitlan's candy store, zealous Policeman Isadore Newman dropped 25 pennies in a game of bagatelle (shooting marbles from a plunger into numbered holes on a sloping board). On his 25th try, he won 5? worth of candy, arrested Louis Gitlan for owning a gambling device. "All luck." charged Plunger Newman. Asked the Court: "As a matter of fact ... as you continued to play you got better and better...
...cash and $500 worth of meerschaum pipes, traveling bags, fountain pens, gold-plated razor, platinum bar pin, imitation pearls, watches, rings, fruit cake and turkey, in limerick, missing last line, humorous anecdote, commodity description, guessing the number of needles or pennies in a jar, jingle, tongue-twister, anagram and punchboard contests. He has won three Funniest-Story-I-Ever-Heard contests with the following: "So you and your father know everything? Well, what's the capital of Africa...