Max Luskin was born BIRTH 28 Jan 1883 Schklow, Russia to Jacob A Luskin & Rifka (Rebekah) Ezrin.
I also found a few newspaper clippings
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47769734/max-luskin/
They followed his wife who lead them right to him, according to the above newspaper article.
Some more of his Leavenworth documents:
Max was married twice and had children with both.
Rebecca Wesoky (Married 1906)
1884–
Esther Luskin
1907–1907
Beatrice Luskin
1915–1915
Morris M Luskin
Photo above is his 2nd wife Lillian
Lillian Rosenstein (Married 28 Sep 1917)
1893–1961
Robert George Luskin
1917–1989
Daniel Samuel Luskin
1918–1968
I found a photo of Robert & Daniel Luskin
Him and his first wife lost their daughters young Ester was only 13 days, and Esther was 7 months and 25 days old.
Esther's Death certificate
Beatrice's Death Certificate
Max was a salesman and worked for a grocery.
Max died DEATH 3 May 1950 in Los Angeles, CA.
This is a photo of Max as a young man
Why was it illegal??
In 1886, passionate lobbying from dairy industry led to the federal Margarine Act, which slapped a restrictive tax on margarine and demanded that margarine manufacturers pay prohibitive licensing fees. Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Ohio went a step further and banned margarine outright.
The Dairy and Margarine Industries Go to War
To protect rural dairy farms, they passed an 1895 bill banning the sale of margarine dyed yellow to look like butter. Because margarine was less expensive than butter, lawmakers hoped this would keep the dairy industry from collapsing.
Vermont, South Dakota and New Hampshire state legislatures all passed laws requiring margarine to be dyed bright pink—a visual declaration of the product's artificiality that was also sure to be perfectly unappetizing to prospective buyers. The Supreme Court later overturned these "pink laws" as unconstitutional.
Here's a link about the butter wars
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/food/the-plate/2014/08/13/the-butter-wars-when-margarine-was-pink/
The Oleomargarine Act. ... On this date, the 49th Congress (1885–1887) set in motion an era of commercial regulation by passing the Oleomargarine Act which defined the very essence of butter and imposed a two-cent per pound tax on oleomargarine, a butter substitute made from animal fat.
Here's a link about the Ole Act
https://history.house.gov/HistoricalHighlight/Detail/15032395622
Yellow margarine was banned in Wisconsin until 1967, the last ban of its kind. The law was overturned only after one state senator (who was particularly anti-oleo) agreed to a blind taste test. ... Today, Wisconsin still has some margarine laws. Restaurants cannot legally serve margarine unless they also offer butter.
Can you imagine not being able to buy Ole??? Did you know Norway ran completely out of butter once, yes the entire country.
Here's a link for you on this to read:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_butter_crisis
Interesting history we have, and so much more to learn.
Inmate: #6584 Leavenworth Federal Prison
Rec: 16 June 1909
Crime:Selling Ole Margarine Without a License
I also found a few newspaper clippings
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47769734/max-luskin/
They followed his wife who lead them right to him, according to the above newspaper article.
Some more of his Leavenworth documents:
Max was married twice and had children with both.
Rebecca Wesoky (Married 1906)
1884–
Esther Luskin
1907–1907
Beatrice Luskin
1915–1915
Morris M Luskin
Photo above is his 2nd wife Lillian
Lillian Rosenstein (Married 28 Sep 1917)
1893–1961
Robert George Luskin
1917–1989
Daniel Samuel Luskin
1918–1968
I found a photo of Robert & Daniel Luskin
Him and his first wife lost their daughters young Ester was only 13 days, and Esther was 7 months and 25 days old.
Beatrice's Death Certificate
Max was a salesman and worked for a grocery.
Max died DEATH 3 May 1950 in Los Angeles, CA.
This is a photo of Max as a young man
Why was it illegal??
In 1886, passionate lobbying from dairy industry led to the federal Margarine Act, which slapped a restrictive tax on margarine and demanded that margarine manufacturers pay prohibitive licensing fees. Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Ohio went a step further and banned margarine outright.
The Dairy and Margarine Industries Go to War
To protect rural dairy farms, they passed an 1895 bill banning the sale of margarine dyed yellow to look like butter. Because margarine was less expensive than butter, lawmakers hoped this would keep the dairy industry from collapsing.
Vermont, South Dakota and New Hampshire state legislatures all passed laws requiring margarine to be dyed bright pink—a visual declaration of the product's artificiality that was also sure to be perfectly unappetizing to prospective buyers. The Supreme Court later overturned these "pink laws" as unconstitutional.
Here's a link about the butter wars
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/food/the-plate/2014/08/13/the-butter-wars-when-margarine-was-pink/
The Oleomargarine Act. ... On this date, the 49th Congress (1885–1887) set in motion an era of commercial regulation by passing the Oleomargarine Act which defined the very essence of butter and imposed a two-cent per pound tax on oleomargarine, a butter substitute made from animal fat.
Here's a link about the Ole Act
https://history.house.gov/HistoricalHighlight/Detail/15032395622
Yellow margarine was banned in Wisconsin until 1967, the last ban of its kind. The law was overturned only after one state senator (who was particularly anti-oleo) agreed to a blind taste test. ... Today, Wisconsin still has some margarine laws. Restaurants cannot legally serve margarine unless they also offer butter.
Can you imagine not being able to buy Ole??? Did you know Norway ran completely out of butter once, yes the entire country.
Here's a link for you on this to read:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_butter_crisis
Interesting history we have, and so much more to learn.
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