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Dunstan Times, Issue 2712, 27 April 1914, Page 8

The poorest of the poor arc still obsessed with the idea that respect for their dead can only be adequately displayed by means of gorgeous Funerals. At the meeting of the Lambeth Board of Guardians it was reported that a railwayman who was only earning 26s a week had spent £SO on the funerals of his wife and son.

One of London’s queer trades is that of empty-bottle sorting at the London Bottle Exchange. These bottles have been salvaged from dustbins, cellars, the holds of ships, and wherever bottles go astray. 'Every year at least 2.000,000 bottles, after many wanderings, find their way to the bottle exchange. They are sorted and returned to their rightful owners, who pay an annual subscription as well as a few shillings a gross for returned bottles. Reared on the bottle, as it wore, a sorter at the exchange must be a man of keen eye and delicate touch. All that he has to guide him in thousands of cases the embossed name on the glass, ana swiftly, unerringly, and with almost uncanny deftness he picks out a bottle which has wandered from Glasgow and puts it in the case bound for the north.