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Canadian Silver Racket. Canada's paper dollars sagged to 86? each after the fall of the pound sterling, but Canadian silver dollars have continued exchangeable at face value for U. S. silver dollars in U. S. towns along the Canadian border...
Suddenly last week many a U. S. border storekeeper noticed that his till had become overloaded with Canadian silver, cursed his own stupidity. Shrewd border farmers, it appeared, have been working an ingenious rural silver racket thus...
...customary amount of good dancing is lacking in this spectacle and this reviewer, for one, likes the defect. Too much dancing would be too much for the ensemble engaged in putting the racket across...
...case. They simply want to cremate so that they can sell the urn and the niche. Funeral directors often take bodies to crematories, and have a devil of a time getting the ashes. The crematory people want to get into the families, and spread the high-power selling racket." Editor Witman's solution: Let the funeral director carry a sideline of urns at a modest price and "sell" a bigger funeral. As in most trade magazines, there is a page in the Mortuary Digest reserved for informal shoptalk. It is headed "The Back Room." Advertisements in the funeral press...
When the police function properly, it is creditable but unexpected. So accustomed has the public become to reports of violent deaths that the ability of the police to prevent these for twenty-four hours has become a subject of journalistic recognition. Before the era of the racket, policemen protected the lives of citizens and thought nothing of it. Now, in return for work well done, the ego of the "force" must be soothed by public exhibition of a record, quite possibly issued before the turn in the tide could bring any bodies back up the river...