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thing. 
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THE RAMBLE 
Day, the sealer of 
weights and measures at Salem, ‘put 
one over, as the saying goes, on the 
state commissioner of weights and 
measures, Thure Hanson, and _ inci- 
dentally showed that he (Day) was 
on to his job. Commissioner Hanson 
was in Salem a week ago Saturday 
with other sealers, as reported in The 
News at that time. The talk led to 
the various requirements for selling 
different commodities, particularly 
peaches. Peaches can not be sold by 
the box or basket but only by 
dry measure or number or weight 
equivalent to the established stand- 
ard. ‘I'll wager a good box of cigars 
“George ae 
that I can go out into your market 
Square here and ask a hawker there 
to sell me a box of peaches and that 
he will do it,’ said Commissioner 
Hanson. ‘Well now I’ll just take that 
wager, my friend,’ replied Sealer Day. 
So off they went and the commission- 
er went up to a hawker and said: 
‘How much are your peaches by the 
box?’ ‘We don’t sell them by the 
box,’ replied the hawker. ‘T’'ll sell 
you what you want by the dozen, or 
measure.’ ‘Why won’t you sell me 
a basket?’ ‘It’s against the law,’ re- 
plied the man, ‘according to the sealer 
here in this berg.’ Hanson tried some 
others with the same result and then 
went to a cigar store and bought the 
box of cigars like a good sport who 
pays when he loses.’”—Salem News. 
“Blackjack” is an old name, once 
familiar in Salem, Medford and var- 
ious other New England towns. In 
Salem, it was applied to a penny can- 
dy, that seemed to last forever. In 
Salem, Medford and various other 
New England towns, it was applied 
to rum. Doubtless it got its name not 
from the rum but from mugs of 
leather, from which the trum was 
drank. These mugs were called 
“black jacks,” They were made of 
stout sole leather, moulded mug 
shape. They were stitched with wax 
threads, and were trimmed with 
pewter, silver, or other metal. Some of 
them were considered of artistic ap- 
pearance. Others were doubtless of 
homely appearance, for a French tray- 
eller, upon returning to his home, 
wrote that “Yankees drank beer from 
boot legs.” 
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The U S, M. Co. plant at Beverly 
is reported running to about 70 per 
cent of its capacity. This means that 
the working force has been reduced 
from 5000 to between 3500 and 4000. 
The average wage at the Beverly 
factory is $15.70 a week, or slightly 
more than $800 a year. That means 
a decrease of more than $1,000,000 in 
the distribution of wages. The de- 
crease in activity of the Beverly plant 
is due, it is stated, to the government 
suits which have been pending against — 
the company for several years. 
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Judging from several of the men’s 
clothing catalogues that have reached 
my desk this season, men are to be 
made as ridiculous as the women 
have been all summer. Apparently 
all the clothes are to be made as tight 
as the women’s skirts have been, 
while every man shwn in the style 
pictures is wearing a hat about two 
sizes too large for him, and planted 
squarely on the back of his head. One 
thing is certain: the vaudeville He- 
brew impersonator will have to devise 
some new make-up—his customary 
garb has been pre-empted by the fash- : 
ionable clothing maker. 
Ose 
County Commissioner Grosvenor 
has a finely appointed camp on the 
shore of a lake near Farmington, 
Me. His fleet includes a very cranky 
Swampscott dory. .A short time ago 
Mr. Grosvenor had as a guest John 
Sturgess, one of. the prominent off- 
cials of the New England Telephone 
Company, and. an ardent fisherman. 
Both men are heavy weights, and that 
is why the boat tipped them into the 
lake when they were starting on a 
fishing trip recently. Mr. Burgess 
cannot swin, and Mr. Grosvenor is 
hardly an expert, so they seemed to 
be in a precarious. position as they 
clung to the swamped boat. and shout- 
ed lustily for help. They were. res- 
cued by another fisherman, ; 
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“Nothing, it seems to me, looks as 
unimportant as a bridegroom at a wed- 
ding.”’ 
‘‘Have you ever noticed a Governor 
when he was surrounded by the uni- 
formed members of his staff ?’—Chi- 
cago Record-Herald. 
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