Lucretia B
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390 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
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When things go wrong at a gaming table, they shout.
Foul, foul.
Over all the gaming tables of the world I cry out foul, foul, infinitely foul.
In modern days, in addition to the other forms of gambling, have come up the thoroughly organized and in some states legalized institution of lotteries.
There are hundreds of citizens on the way to ruin through the lottery system.
Some of the finest establishments in town are by this process being demolished.
it, and the whole land feels the exhaustion of this accumulating evil.
The wheel of fortune is the juggernaut that is crushing out the life of this nation.
The records of the insolvent court of one city show that in five years two hundred thousand dollars were lost by dealing in lottery tickets.
All the officers of the celebrated Bank of the United States who failed were found to have expended the money embezzled for lottery tickets.
Sure.
A man drew in a lottery fifty thousand dollars, sold his ticket for forty-two thousand five hundred dollars, and yet did not have enough to pay the charges against him for lottery tickets.
He owed the brokers forty-five thousand dollars.
An editor writes a man who, a few years ago, was blessed with about twenty thousand dollars lottery money, yesterday applied to us for nine pence to pay for a night's lodging.
A highly respectable gentleman drew twenty thousand dollars in a lottery, bought more tickets, and drew again, bought more, drew more largely.
Then rushed down headlong until he was pronounced by the select men of the village a vagabond, and his children were picked up from the street, half-star and almost naked.
A hard working machinist draws a thousand dollars.
Thenceforth he is disgusted with work and
Opens a rum grocery, is utterly debauched, and people go in his store to find him dead close beside his rum cask.
It would take a pen plucked from the wing of the destroying angel and dipped in blood to describe this lottery business.
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