Lucretia B
speaker
390 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
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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The lottery in which our most highly respectable and Christian people invest is some
Art Association.
Or some benevolent gift enterprise in which they fondly believe there can be no harm in drawing Bierstadt's Yosemite Valley or Cropsi's American Autumn.
At no time have lottery tickets been sown so broadcast as to day, notwithstanding the law forbids.
in the old style lottery.
A few years ago, our newspapers flamed with the advertisements of the Crosby Opera House Scheme.
A citizen of Chicago finding on his hands an unprofitable building.
calls upon the whole country to help him out.
Rooms are opened in all the great cities where
In rush, not the abandoned and the reprobate, for they like the old styles of swindling better, but the educated and refined and polished.
Until a host of people are in imminent peril of having thrown upon their hands a splendid opera house, Philadelphia buys thirty thousand dollars worth of tickets, the portentous day approaches.
The rail trains from many of the prominent cities bring in dignified committees who come to see that the great abomination is conducted in a decent and Christian manner.
The throng presses in, hold fast your tickets, all you respectable New Yorkers, Philadelphians, and Bostonians.
before the wheel begins to move.
The long agony is over, and
Hundreds of thousands of people have made a narrow escape from being ruined by sudden affluence.
Swift horses are dispatched that, foam lathered, dash up to the house of him who owns the successful ticket.
The lightnings tell it to the four winds of heaven, and
And our weekly pictorials hasten forward the photographers to take the picture of the famous man who owned the ticket numbered fifty eight thousand six hundred.
Multitudes think that there has been foul play, and that, after all, they themselves, if the truth were known, did draw the opera house.
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