Catchword: curbstoning

Filed under: English, Business, Crime & Prisons

Part of speech: n.

Quotation: The regular dealers pay $50 a year license and complain that they daily encounter persons who pay no license, but watch for opportunities to make sales and frequently cause the regular brokers trouble by stepping in when sales are partly completed and claiming a part of the commission. As a first step to check this curbstone business, as it is called, the following letter was yesterday sent to the District Commissioners.

Article or Document Title:
“After Curbstone Brokers”

Article, document, publication, web site:
Washington Post

Date of publication:
Aug. 10, 1893

Page number:
7

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