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Last May the S. S. Excella entered New York harbor from Marseilles with her manifest showing, among other things, 54 casks of "flower pots." At the pier a man presented the original bills of lading for the shipment. A customs clerk picked out Casks No. 4, 30 and 53 for sample inspection. They were opened and, sure enough, they did contain flower pots. A crockery duty of $107.70 was assessed and paid on the whole consignment and away went the other 51 casks, first to a warehouse, then by truck out over Long Island roads to "The Braes," where they...
...Braes," explained to Mr. Pratt that they had no warrant to search his home. They expressed a belief that Mr. Pratt's casks had contained not flower pots but 240 cases of French champagne. Mr. Pratt not only confirmed their belief but obligingly arranged to have the shipment trucked back to Brooklyn, where it was destroyed...
...transferring a shipment of 800 lockers for the new athletic plant to the Newell boathouse the number of lockers in that building will total 1290 by the end of next month, making the boathouse the temporary headquarters for track, baseball and crew, according to plans announced yesterday by the Harvard Athletic Association...
...starlings are the descendants of a small shipment brought from England in 1890 and loosed in Central Park, Manhattan. As in the case of English sparrows, imported 1850 by the Brooklyn Institute, the birds were to be used as insect killers. So troublesome did both starlings and English sparrows soon become that 25 years ago the Lacey law was passed prohibiting the importation of any variety of bird without the consent of the Secretary of Agriculture...
...bank appealed to the United States for help. Before help could come there were two revolutions in rapid succession, and the bank in high alarm asked the United States to send a warship, and quickly. But when this arrived the bank's chief concern proved to be the shipment to New York of gold belonging in whole or in part to the Haitian Government...