The Looming Loan Shark Crisis in Dallas
The Better Business Bureau of Dallas highlights widespread loan shark practices. Cases show workers paying far more than borrowed sums, including a sporting goods employee, a taxi driver, a postal worker, and an elderly driver being bled for years. Complaints span businesses, professionals, and public bodies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Better Business Bureau of Dallas
William Collier
Sporting Goods
Zoan
Dallas
Collier
Farmland disputes and court comments in local chatter
A scattered column blends political courtroom banter with rural squabbles over boundary lines and a vow to appeal through the courts. The piece shifts to a Houston Post editorial on wartime resource policies and prices, then to Mexican proverbs, a poultry ad, and a Church of Christ notice with services on December 7 1941.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brown
Smith
Court of Appeals
Supreme Court
Houston Post
Texas Memorial Museum and state pride notes
Reader questions reveal the Texas Memorial Museum as a state museum on the University of Texas campus with Dr. E. H. Sellards as director. Civic pride highlights Rosebud Texas and Elizabeth Ney’s move to Austin in 1892. Details on governors, Texas landmarks, and a for sale three-room house in Llano.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
A. Garland Adair
Texas Memorial Museum
Austin
Ben B. Hunt
University of Texas
E. H. Sellards
Rosebud
Elizabeth Ney
Tom Campbell
William Jennings Bryan
Mission
United States
Hidalgo County
San Francisco
Democratic Party
D. F. Strickland
Bryan
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Methusaleh
Tobiacco
Angel Gabriel
Department of Agriculture
Jimmy
George Washington
Adam
PG. Shippard
Valley Spring
South Llano
Archie Smith
Woman’s Culture Club
Roger
Bruhl's
By Percy Crosby
Eng
Mesprale Serene
Avondale
E. L. Walter Jeweler
Fredericksburg, Texas
Buckhorn Cafe
Sunshine Steam Laundry
Ligon
Myrick's Barber Shop
Fred Myrick
Dollie Dunnaway
Rieley
Leifeste
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia Pinkham
Elizabet Ney
Union
A. Coke R. Stevenson
Capitol
Sam Houston
Republic
Miriam A. Ferguson
Brady
8. G. McPherson
Llano
Swenson
John Cummins
Mes, R. Fishbeck
Buster’s Cleaners
M. D. Buster
Bill Walker
W. J. Everett
General Motors
Home Appliance Company
C. J. Whigham
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