Modern Peonage in Dallas Exposed by Kenneth Force
In Dallas in 1938 to 1949, Johnnie Jones a hospital orderly falls into a predatory lending scheme. He signs steeply interested notes for small loans that compound through refinanced indebtedness and penalties. The cycle leaves him paying most of his paycheck and facing family strain and possible job loss.
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Kenneth Force
Dallas News
Rawboned
Johnnie Jones
Kirby
Bryan
Johnnie
Greenville
L&a
Dallas
Johnny Jones
Jones
Main
Detective Uncovers Loan Shark Ring in City Office
R J Luther city detective and Nurse Johnnie Jones expose a peonage scheme with notes inflated by up to six hundred percent. Will Wilson D A leads the Junior Bar anti loan shark effort, yet lawyers say enforcement lacks teeth and records are missing.
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R. J. Luther
Johnnie Jones
Will Wilson
D. A
Classified Ads Parade in Whitewright Texas
Local notices list purchases and sales at Babcock Auto and Hi Way Grocery. Items include spark plugs, ice boxes, seeds, stoves, lamps, fuel, and land for sale plus rental rooms and a card of thanks from Mrs. E A Doty.
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Times Herald
Childress Pharmacy
Jimmie McSpedden
Babcock Auto Store
Whitewright
Allen T. Short
Phone 100
Hannah's
Babcock Auto
Johnson Jewelry & Appliance
Ross R. May
Clarence McMillin
T. B. Autrey
Detroit
Florence
O. A. Bennett
Tom Barbee
Dawson
W. J. Billner
East Grand
Dearborn
Dawson Butane
Barbee
Babcock Auto _ Store
F. W. Creager
Travis
P. O
Sherman
Texas
Thor Wringer
Jack Nossaman
Griffin Dollarhide Jr
E. A. Doty
Johnnie Jones Declares Account Settled After Dispute
A court fight looms as attorney states Johnnie Jones has paid more than due and now closes the account. Jones also claims personal woes, saying he lost his wife yet has $190 in the bank and owes nobody.
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Johnnie Jones
Jones
Miscellany items from across the nation in brief
Time Magazine surveys odd snippets from Columbus St Louis Los Angeles Kampsville Newark Orangeburg and Newark noting a rug damage from an insecticide a bullet wound a divorce over TV watching a rash during proximity a broken ankle a burglar alarm theft and a hotel mortgage listing a wooden leg The punchline claims the rhinoceros has little intelligence and a bad temper.
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Columbus
Ohio
Howard Bevis
Ohio State University
St. Louis
Weslie Brent
Los Angeles
Bemis Radford
Joyce Holdridge
Kampsville
James Inman
Newark
N. J
Clinton Lewis
Orangeburg
S. C
Willie Davis
Time Magazine
Job ideas from the 1949 Dictionary of Occupational Titles
The Labor Department lists 22 000 jobs in the new 1949 Dictionary of Occupational Titles including a kiss machine operator a pulpit man a horses up and an end man. A kiss machine operator feeds a candy kiss wrapping machine and others work in mills and tanneries.
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Washington
Labor Department
United States Employment Service
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Sewice
Whitewright Cleaners
Ayres
Stetson
T. W. Ayres & Son
Guiberson
A. R. McMurry
Lucian Jones
Farmall
John Deere
Flowers of Sherman
Carl May
John E. Smith
W. J. Mabry
J. J. Mabry
L. la Rue & Ore
Christian Science Monitor
ABC
Norway St
Boston
Mess
U.S.A
Elty
Stete
Mobilgas Mobiloil
Mobil
Mobil Tires
G. C. Stateville
Magnolia
Plastiglass
Elec
Sunbeam
General Electric
Betty Crocker
Universal
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