Word: pawnshop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...front page. In the story it is told why the recovery of all the booty is believed imminent, how the police expect shortly to have all the criminals in custody, how upset Geraldine Bernhardt is. It is also mentioned that the wrist watch had been recovered in the pawnshop of Sol Horowitz, 12 South Orange...
...deny first that my right, proper and legal name is Sol Horowitz and I further deny that my pawnshop is at 12 S. Orange...
...liked its tone. He traded the new fiddle for the old. The other day in Baltimore this same Henry Campbell haled William Hill, colored, into court for stealing the old violin out of the trunk in its owner's room. A policeman recovered the instrument from a pawnshop where it was reposing as guarantee for $1.75. At the station house a man familiar with violins looked closely at the ancient " box." He was vastly interested. He had a violin maker open the instrument. Inside was the label-" Antonius Stradivarius, Cremonensis, faciebat anno 1723." Experts said that the "Strad...