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    "ocrText": "B.H.P. Reports.\nKansas City, Mo. Friday March 26, 1920.\nAccording to instructions received from the agency I\nproceeded to the Truman & Jacobson Gents Furnishings Store\nlocated at 104 West 12th St. arriving there at 3:30 P.M.\nOperative #97 had just entered the store a few minutes\nbefore I did and was just paying for his purchases when he gave\nthe clerk $4.04 then left the store. The clerk rang up the\nsale on the register as 3.04 and then placed the rest of the\nmoney in his left coat pocket. He then came to me and I told him\nI wanted a shirt size 15 1/2 and he asked about what price I\nwanted to pay for a shirt. I told him about $4.00. He tried to\nsell me a silk shirt but I did not like them SO I bought one he\nshowed me the first time for $4.65 and I gave him the exact\nchange and then left the store.\nUpon my arrival at the agency I was instructed to return\nthe shirt and exchange it for the silk shirt and pay the clerk\nthe difference. I immediately went back to the store and told the\nclerk this shirt was too long in the Sleeves and that I wanted\na better shirt . He showed me some more silk shirts and I looked at\nseveral before I could decide which one I wanted. I then decided\nthat I wanted a silk shirt which was $12.50 plus the tax. He\nwarpped it up and then did some figuring on some paper and told me\nthe dofference was $8.80 I counted out the money which was as\nfollows, one five dollar bill, one silver dollar, two one dollar\nbills, a hald, a quarter and a nickle. I then left the store\nlong enough to hear the bell on the register ring then returned and\nsaid I wanted some handkerchiefs and he said I have some\ngood ones at two for a quarter. While he was waiting on me this\ntime I looked at the cash register and saw the last sale was\nrung up as $ $3.80 instead of $8.80. I then paid him the quarter for\nthe handkerchi and left the store.\nWhen I entered the store on my second trip the clerk\nwas talking to a young lady in front of the store and as she left\nhe said to her that he would see her tonight. Then a drug clerk\nwearing an apron came in the store with a package of Camel Cigarettes\nand laid them on the show case and the clerk took from his\npocket the exact change .19 cents and gave the boy for the\ncigarettes and then the drug clerk left the store. As he paid for\nthe cigarettes he remarked that he just had the exact change and that\nhe was pretty near broke.\nHe was courteous and seemed in a hurry to wait on\neach customer. He was neatly dressed and kept the store very clean.\nReported.\nKansas City, Mo.\nMarch 26, 1920."
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