as Junk A new catalogue-collecting "racket"
Shanghai has just come to light the breakup of the partnership between two educated" but unem= played youths, who have made comatively lucrative living from their "business."
The two youths, who have been jobless since they left school last summer, have been "collecting" catalogues from various schools and universities and other pamphlets and publications from various commercial institutions in Shanghai. 'They were, however, far from being interested' in any. the places, but merely. cold thei catalogues to a junk dealer who paid 9 few coppers per cattle for the that there would be no school that afternoon because it was February 22, and a holiday. Their mother, not quite believing, questioned them as to, just what it, was, "Oh," "replied one, "it is, Jeweli's washerman's birthday; that story, $0 some of the ex-pupils say, I still going the rounds, Miss Jewell now lives with a younger sister, Miss F. E. Jewell. Her only relatives in Shanghai are her nephew, Mr. J. J. Evans, Mrs. Evans, and her grand nieces and nephews, Ellen, Millie, Joyce and Ted Evans, She has seven grand-nieces and nephews in America.
Universities issuing "fat" catalogues naturally brought them a better income while it took many one-sheet bulletins to exchange enough coppers for a decent meal.
The "racket" came to an abrupt end the other day when one of the partners returned with $120 after disposing of 500 catalogues and bul-latins to the junk dealer. The other charged that he "squeezed" forty cents because at least $1.60 could have been collected from the dealer.
The Shanghai checking 22 for Nanking en route to Shanghai,
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