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...Net profit. . . .$78.00 Loss of Earnings as during normal times $77 per week...
...Cuban National Lottery will be made bigger, better under a proposed law, is expected to net the Cuban treasury a profit of $10,000,000 next year. At the National Casino in Marianao, Havana, roulette (with two zeroes), Baccarat, Faro, Craps and almost every other gambling game known to man are played, are legal for both sexes. But women are not allowed to attend the better burlesque shows in Havana...
Badminton was first introduced in the United States in 1878. The game consists of driving a specially made shuttle over a light net five feet high with a finely made long-handled racket, and can be played by either two or four people. At present the Badminton Club and the University Club are the only two groups providing Badminton facilities in Boston...
...game was about three minutes old before either team had a real chance at a goal and then it was Batchelder who was given the first opportunity. He drew Ames out of the net and seemingly had a straight shot ahead but he aimed wide. After five minutes of milling about the second Harvard line of Baldwin. Wood, and Saltonstall went in and although they pressed the issue continually they produced no score...
...Shoemaker says: "By raising the bird and dropping it suddenly it Avas made to flutter as it was going down; and the flying birds, seeing it, would begin to circle around, coming nearer and nearer, until they finally lit on the bed around the stool pigeon. Then the net would be sprung. At once there would be a mass of fluttering, struggling pigeons, with heads protruding through the meshes. The fowler and his assistants would rush to the massacre, which was the crushing of the head of each individual bird between the thumb and forefinger...