Lucretia B
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390 appearances
1 recordings
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
Lucretia B’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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A man committed suicide in New York, and upon his person was found a card of address giving a grog shop as his boarding house, three blank lottery tickets, and a leaf from Seneca's Morals containing an apology for self-murder.
One lottery in London was followed by the
suicide of fifty persons who held unlucky numbers.
There are men now with lottery tickets in their pocket, which, if they have not sense enough to tear up or throw into the fire, will be their admission ticket at the door of the damned.
As the brazen gates swing open, they will show their tickets and pass in and pass down as the wheel of
Eternal fortune turns slowly round, they will find that the doom of those who have despised God and imperiled their souls will be their awful prize.
God forbid that you, my reader, should ever take to yourself the lamentation of the Boston clerk.
who in eight months had embezzled eighteen thousand dollars from his employer
And expended it all in lottery tickets.
I have for the last seven months gone fast down the broad road.
There was a time, and that but a few months since when I was happy because I was free from debt and care.
The moment of the first steps in my downfall was about the middle of last.
June, when I took a share in a company, bought lottery tickets whereby I was successful in obtaining a share of one half of the capital prize since which I have gone for myself.
I have lived and dragged out a miserable existence for two or three months past.
Oh, that the
Seven or eight months past of my existence could be blotted out, but I must go, and ere this paper is read, my spirit has gone to my maker to give an account of my misdeeds here, and to receive the eternal sentence for self destruction and abused confidence.
Relatives and friends
friends I have from whom I do not wish to part under such circumstances, but necessity compels.
O wretch, lottery tickets have been thy ruin, but I cannot add more.
There are multitudes of people who disapprove of ordinary lotteries, yet have been thoroughly deceived by iniquity under a more attractive nomenclature.
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