The Coolidge examiner. [volume] (Coolidge, Ariz.) 1930-current, 1939-02-09

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both sides. Looked fake or hot.
No go.
Nov. "a Drunk wanted to sell
almost new Bulova watch for $500.
No go. Hot stuff.
Nov. 26 Boy selling pencils with
a big sob story.
Nov. % Man wanted to sell old
Hamilton watch for two dollars.
Wanted to get to Phoenix. Chill
dren sell white cross tubercular
stamps.
Nov. 90 Husky tramp wanted any
old clothes l may have. No offer
to work.
Dec. 1 Man selling mems suits.
Bum wanted bread to go with his
hamburger and potatoes.
Dec. 3 Man wanted to collect
bad accounts.
Dec. Colored man wanted hand
out or anything.
Dec. Lady selling chances on
the rattle of a horse.
Dec. s Boy selling tickets for
school dance after basketball game
Man soliciting advertisement in
cafe menu.
Dec. 9 Indian girl from Sacaton
reservation wanted donation for
needy on the reservation at Christ
mas.
Dec. II Men selling Christmas
window cards. Donation for indie
pendent Holiness Church.
Dec. 10 Man selling electric
water heaters. Bum wanted nickel
for a hunk of bologna.
Dec. Is Veteran soliciting for
advertising in Veterans publication
Dec 16 Bum wanted order for loaf
OF bread at grocery.
Dec. 10 Soliciting for advertis-
ing on school curtain.
Dec. 20 Woman selling tickets for
the raffling of bed spread.
Dec 81 Man selling wire baskets.
Dec. % Man offered to sweep
sidewalk for cup of coffee.
Dec. 23 Bum wanted eight cents
for loaf OF bread. Man wanted to
borrow one dollar on supposedly
crooked dice.
Dec. 25 Merry Christmas.
Many are the incidents l have
not related here, and many of
interest, but before l close want
to relate one that may help the
inexperienced some day, for as |
know it certain people of Coolidge
have paid dearly for the experience.
That is the diamond ring racket.
For your information no diamond
regardless of size has a cover or
shell over the back of the diamond.
This is the easiest way for the in
experienced to detect a fake. This
is not true in all cases for a great
many glass cuts carry luster. But
the usual fake ring is obtained from
a SO called ten cent store, and is
what we call in the trade, paste.
1t is always covered on the back
with a so called looking glass or
rightly so, mercury. To be certain
always come to the jeweler before
you buy. But now for my story, or
rather facts in this ring racket.
A couple of years ago a man.
with an old Dodge touring car and
three small children appeared in
Coolidge and | believe duped every
filling station in town. He would
drive in with the children crying
and dirty, calling the attendant to
that fact he states that his wife
had died a few days ago in Los
Angeles and he was trying to get
the children back to their grand
mothers in Oklahoma, but had run
out of money. That he had a tank
full of gasoline but that the chill
dren were hungry and the only re-
naming article of value he had was
his deceased wife's engagement
ring. That he only wanted loan
of a couple dollars and insisted on
the attendants address so he could
recover it when he arrived at the
grandmothers. The story was so
impressive and the children did
such a good job of crying that l
believe he netted thirty five or
forty dollars in a couple Of hours.
l still wonder if the mother wasn't
on the floor of the car with pin
urging the children, or perhaps you
have better idea. Yes you guessed
it the rings were faxed.
A c,ir 10.