The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-11-02
QUEER THINGS TO Be
FOUND At A
BROKERS'
Everything From a Sausage
Grinder and False Teeth
to q Switch.
ARE TO BE SECURED
Someone Expected to Pawn an
Elephant One of These
Days.
ARE TO BE SECURED

One of these days before very long
someone is going to fill up one of the
lower DeMers avenue pawnshops.
Somebody is going to pawn an ele-
plant. Why not? Everything else has
at one time or another adorned the
ticket hook in one or more of the loan
offices and when the demand for ele-
plants becomes a little greater and
the price OF hay a little less expensive,
they, too. will wind up behind the loan
counter. For the present, however, the
man whose sign is three gilded balls,
is content with plug hats, false teeth,
shower baths earrings. Indeed a look
into one of the local shops will con-
vince you that the pawnbroker will
take anything that can squeeze be-
tween the portals, or can be located
and found by a microscope when
wanted. These are gladstone days,
truly, for the loan broker. Harvesters
returning from the fields of the state
spend their hard earned wages in one
of the numerous drink emporiums
across the river, and as q last re-
course for ticket home, gravitate
their watches, rings and even coats
oAAu SoPo " VIC pawn SLOp.
Even In these days of cheer, the
broker must be discreet and carefully
edit the many queer things that come
his way. When the Evening Times
representative entered one of the shops
this afternoon the proprietor was en-
deavoring to straighten out one of the
curious tangles that constantly hobs
up like a new issue in a political cam
paign. 1t appears that a young man
with $3.50 in his pocket and who very
badly needed So, entered the shop the
day before and pawned $3.50 for 81.
Therefore he had just 81 in ready cash,
meeting friend, he sold the pawn
ticket for 81 and had So. The ques-
ton then was, Who was out the extra
SO cents?"
A look into the "molar" department
of this shop would bring the query
why should anyone want to pawn his
teeth however hard up one may be?
In the days of Victor Hugo, ladies who
sold their whole mouthful, one at a
time, there may have been some in
ducement, provided the teeth were
good. They brought as much as IS
piece then. But teeth are drug
on the market just now, and whole sets
may be had for the price formerly
asked for one tooth. Still, the pawn
broker informed the Evening Times
man that less than a week ago lady
pawned her false teeth.
A glance In another OF the pawn
shops disclosed the fact that the pro-
prietor maintained special show
case for woman's hair goods. He ex-
planned that a woman who pawnei her
hair didn't often come back for it, for,
as rule, she can grow another crop
at hairdressers. On this account the
pledge is nearly as good as pur-
chase and the price is low accordingly.
The broker jokingly told the reporter
that he had many misplaced switches
but never any wrecks. Most of this
surplus hair is resold by the broker
to hairdresser establishments and is
made over into switches that look as
though they had grown on the own
er's head.
In one Of the shops further down the
knuckles, some glistening and new,
others significant Of wear, mute wit
nesses to many a narrowing tale oil
woe and bloodshed. One can make a
fine choice of knuckles in that shop.
Further back in the window was a
prayer book and shower bath with
several feet Of hose twined around the
base. This same broker has a prom
Using lot Of enamel letters, peeled by
enterprising persons from store win
dows, and an increditable number Of
hammers and meerschum pipes with
bowls as big as ones fist and gay
with nymphs and tritons frolicking
upon them. All these are to be had.
Neither are sausage grinders alto
gether neglected, nor anything else
that one could think Of in days stroll
through these storehouses Of family