Lucretia B
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390 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
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Who will want to sell tape and measure nanken and cut garments and weigh sugars when in a night's game he makes and loses, and makes again, and loses again.
uses again the profits of a season.
John Borick was sent as mercantile agent from Bremen to England and this country.
After two years his employers mistrusted that all was not right.
He was a defaulter for eighty-seven thousand dollars.
It was found that he had lost in Lombard Street, London, twenty-nine thousand dollars in Fulton Street, New York, ten thousand dollars, and in New Orleans three thousand dollars.
He was imprisoned, but afterwards escaped and went into the gambling profession.
He died in a lunatic asylum.
This crime is getting its pry under many a mercantile house in our cities, and before long, down will come the great establishment.
Crushing reputation, home, comfort, and immortal souls, how it diverts and sinks capital may be inferred from some authentic statements before us.
The ten gaming houses that once were authorized in Paris passed through the banks yearly three hundred and twenty-five million.
Millions of francs, the houses of this kind in Germany yield vast sums to the government.
The Hamburg establishment pays to the government treasury forty thousand florins.
And Baden Baden one hundred and twenty thousand florins.
Each one of the banks in the large gaming houses of Germany has forty or fifty cropiers standing in its service.
Where does all the money come from?
The whole world is robbed.
What is most sad there are no consolations for the loss and suffering entailed by gaming.
If men fail in lawful business, God pities and society commiserates.
But where in the Bible or in society is there any consolation for the gambler?
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