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Show Claims Pawnbroking Distinction. AMSTERDAM. Netherlands. Feb. 23. Felt re, a picturesque Kalian town winch j has fallen into German bands, claims to have t he oldest pawnbroking business in Italy, if not in all Europe. According to the Cologne Volkszeitunu, it was here that the blessed Bernardin of Feitre a disciple of St. Bernardin of Siena, established estab-lished in the fifteenth t-enftiry the first loan office in aid of the poor of Hie town. Feitre was destroyed in lain, durine: the war between Emperor Maximilian I and the Venetians. |