Pawnbrokers were an incentive to theft, cunning and lack of honest industry, etc.
The law restricted pawnbrokers from charging more than seven per cent on amounts more than $25, but on amounts below that they were allowed to charge twenty-five per cent.
Publicans and pawnbrokers seem to be the invariable victims of a certain type of swindler.
Stolen property has to be traced, pawnbrokers visited, convicts on licence watched, reports made, inquiries conducted by request of provincial police forces.
Manning will deliver a list of the stolen articles to his "pawnshop men," who will inquire of all pawnbrokers whether anything on the list has been pledged.
Pawnbrokers seldom identify crooks, for it is to their interest to plead a bad memory in this respect.
Duplicate lists will also be left with all pawnbrokers with the request that they notify the police if anyone offers to pledge any of the stolen articles.
A report from the pawnbrokers would be an awful lesson to governments how they encourage such riot.
A report from the pawnbrokerswould be an awful lesson to governments, how they encourage such riot.
The following advertisement appeared in the Supplement to the Times for the next day: "To Pawnbrokers and Others.
The best class of pawnbrokers lend money only on such securities as jewels.
Illustration: The thieves' exchange--a drinking saloon where pawnbrokers go to buy stolen goods.
As a consequence, the pawnbrokers of the city are, with a few exceptions, a most rascally set.
It is stated that on a capital of sixpence thus employed (in weekly loans), pawnbrokers make in twelve months 2s.
The following is the rate of profit or interest which pawnbrokers in this country are entitled to charge per calendar month.
It is on these transactions and on such as arise out of the desire of obtaining some momentary gratification that the pawnbrokers make their large profits.
There were about thirty pawnbrokersin Glasgow in 1840.
The enormous interest charged by pawnbrokers crushes and effectually ruins the poor.
Correctly managed, demanding a small interest upon loans, such institutions would become a blessing:--now the shops of pawnbrokers are an evil and a curse!
The public-houses and the pawnbrokers also drive an excellent trade in that huge section of London.
Footnote 31: Number of Pawnbrokerswithin the Bills of } Persons L.
The idea is not new in the System of jurisprudence of the country;--Publicans have long been under regulations prescribed by Magistrates; Pawnbrokers also have been of late years regulated to a certain extent by Statute.
They found that the dagger was gone, and they notified the police and pawnbrokers everywhere.
The pawnbrokers had in safe keeping her diamonds, jewels, and some of her furs and laces.
Some pawnbrokers profess to make liberal advances, but a very heavy percentage is usually charged.
Indeed, some pawnbrokersextort an incredible interest on money loaned to the poor.
As it was late in the day, they failed to find a French-speaking jeweller whom they sought, and it was suggested that, as pawnbrokers were very cautious in loaning, two opinions of that fraternity should be had.
From time to time pawnbrokers called on him and tried to persuade him that his method of doing business was a mistake; that it was not only hurting their business, but was ruining himself.
There was very little competition, and the sale had not gone far before it dawned on Rumble's mind that the pawnbrokers had a tacit understanding that they would not bid against one another, but would divide the stock among them.
Yes, father," answered Fanny, "but all pawnbrokersare not like you.
If their ghosts do come back what very lively times some pawnbrokers must have!
This was the peculiar principle on which he did business, and it is needless to say that he did a very large business, much to the disgust of all other pawnbrokers having shops in his neighborhood.
He soon understood why the pawnbrokers were there.
The THREE BALLS of the pawnbrokers are taken from the lower part of the coat of arms of the Dukes of Medici, from whose states, and from Lombardy, nearly all the early bankers came.
The pawnbrokers are reaping a fine harvest to-night.
Cheap lodging houses abound, pawnbrokers are numerous, several fence stores are to be found here, and some twenty or twenty-five cellars are occupied as dance houses and concert saloons.
In fact, not one in a thousand who have dealings with pawnbrokers is aware of his rights.
A still greater profit to the pawnbrokers is the penny fraud.
The pawnbrokers are, with scarcely an exception, the most rascally set to be found in the city.
Another document indicates that the monthly expenses of the Man-dokoro were some sixty kwanmon and that they were defrayed by levying taxes uponpawnbrokers and sake-dealers in Kyoto and in Omi province.
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