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describing the watch, with retail ceiling price exclusive of tax.
Schemes which have preyed on the housewives are fake appliance repair men who secure irreplaceable appliances for repair and do not return them. Often such racketeers claim to represent well known appliance manufacturers. They take vacuum cleaners and other items away — and fakers and appliances fade out of the picture.
Several elderly women have reported that they were victimised by two men who called, saying they represented a certain stove manufacturer. They said they had been sent out to check gas ranges to see that they were operating satisfactorily. When asked if there was a charge, they said they would lock at the stoves, and if there was any charge it would be slight. For fifteen minutes' work at one home a charge of $30.00 was made, and the woman was afraid not to give the money to them as she was alone in the house. Another woman reported she contested a charge of $2? and the men agreed to take $10 for doing no more than looking at the stove.
If a girl calls at your home, saying she is earning money to take a nursing course, and that you can help her by subscribing to a magazine, do not be misled. Nurses are trained in all
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good hospitals under government aid, and are paid while they are training. This is just another version of the old "I'm working my way through college."
Then there is the itinerant roofer who "just happens to be in the neighborhood" and will repair your roof for a small sum. He observes the gutters of your house are clogged with leaves or that shingles are loose. All of this is handled very casually. The impression is given the job is a small one and the cost will be similarly small. You authorize the work, and when you get the bill you are incredulous. It may be an>^vhere from fifty dollars to several hundred dollars. You may have been given a long-term guarantee on the job but when your roof leaks, or you discover the inferior character of the work, your guarantee is worthless because you cannot find the roofer.
Many new and wonderful things will be on the market after the war, and none more wonderful than plastic products. But if you are offered a miraculous new plastic paint today that is guaranteed to last the life of the building, proof against everything, docs not blister, crack, peel or chip, you may learn to your dismay you not only have bought ordinary paint at a fancy price, but that it is inferior to most house paints sold through legitimate channels.
"Kidsnapper" is the term applied to the photographer who calls on busy mothers in their homes to snap pictures of their children. Often, such pictures are of poor quality, and the operators are fly-by-nights who fail to