Word: pawnshop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...official headquarters?tales of recent Toledo crimes?to remind Toledo voters that Potentate Brown's candidate for reelection, Mayor William T. Jackson, had promised a crime cleanup, had not succeeded. The prize clipping related how the Brown Chief of Police had paid $7 to recover his watch from a pawnshop, whither it had been brought by a thief who had sneaked it from the room in which its owner was sleeping; also how the Brown Chief never did get back the trousers which held the watch which was in the room in which he was sleeping...
John Coolidge once bought a saxophone for $230, tooted it in the White House. His father objected. Son John sold the horn. Last week one Arnold Zahn of Brookline, Mass., obtained what was represented as being the Coolidge saxophone, at a Boston pawnshop...
...Secretary General of the Government Pawnshop System decided that unpublished manuscripts could be "hocked" but not cows. A farmer at Boulogne was thereby sadly disappointed. Said the Secretary General: "Cows are not acceptable because they come under the title of perishable goods. A cow is liable to die in the sad surroundings of a pawnshop, thus making it impossible for the Government to get its money if the pawner does not repay the loan or redeem the pledge if requested. I think there would be a legal tangle if a cow became a mother during her sojourn in a pawnshop...
...solemnly swear that my right, proper and legal name is Solomon Horowits and further swear that my pawnshop is at 12½ S. Orange...
...further swear that for the last two years, four months, and six days I have conducted at 12½ S. Orange St. a pawnshop at which are advanced loans of large value, at very, cheap interest, a high grade service much appreciated by the persons of the community...