Lucretia B
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390 appearances
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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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He said, No, I can have no interest in such an organization.
I am in no wise affected by that evil.
At that very time, his son, who was his partner in business.
Was one of the heaviest players in Hearn's famous gaming establishment.
Another refused his patronage on the same ground, not knowing that his first bookkeeper, though receiving a salary of only a thousand dollars, was losing from fifty to one hundred dollars per night.
The president of a railroad
Company refused to patronize the institution, saying that society is good for the defense of merchants, but we railroad people are not injured by this evil.
Not knowing that at that very time two of his conductors were spending three nights of each week.
At Pharaoh Tables in New York.
Directly or indirectly, this evil strikes at the whole world.
Gambling is the risking of something more or less valuable in the hope of winning more than you hazard.
The instruments of gaming may differ, but the principle is the same.
The shuffling and dealing of cards, however, full of temptation, is not gambling unless stakes are put up.
While, on the other hand, gambling may be carried on without cards or dice or billiards or a ten pin.
in alley.
The man who bets on horses, on elections, on battles, the man who deals in fancy stocks, or conducts a business which extra hazards capital, or goes into transactions without foundation, but dependent upon what men call luck.
is a gambler.
It is estimated that one fourth of the business in London is done dishonestly.
Whatever you expect to get from your neighbor without offering an equivalent in money or time or skill is either the product of theft or gaming.
Lottery tickets and lottery policies come into the same category.
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