Gambling and Luck in Proctor's Moral View
Richard A. Proctor argues gambling is immoral not merely for vice but because it does not pay. He critiques the gambler’s veins and maturity theories, exposes martingale flaws, and shows how risk and loss compound, harming even prudent players and their families. He warns against high stakes, urging rational restraint over chance-based schemes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wns
Steinmetz
Tess
Cearly
Avery
Irskivon
The Lady Grigg and the White Dressing Gown Wedding
A lady's maid recounts Miss Grigg later Mrs Birch Grigg’s dogged wedding plan on her dying bed. Miss Grigg insists on a white dressing gown and a vow to marry Mr Birch, while Flora the maid consoles, witnesses, and sobs through the intimate ceremony. The tale ends with a funeral-like reception, a successful marriage, and a retracted scandal in the press.
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Flora
Woolie
Miss Grigg
Mr. Birch
Miss Grige
Plera
Evening Paper
Boston Cooking School Demonstration Lecture Dishes
The second course demonstration at the Boston Cooking School yesterday morning featured coffee Bavarian cream chocolate with whipped cream oyster stew and two tripe dishes Lyonnaise tripe and broiled tripe. Instructions covered coffee preparation whipping cream using a churn style tool and molding with lady fingers. Recipes for corn meal waffles chocolate and oyster stew plus Lyonnaise tripe and next week’s menu were given.
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Boston Cooking School
The Cream of Ole Vaginny Dance Ring
A minstrel stage item features performers Brunker Bones Bradder Jones and EMILE Pickwanor leading a playful ethnic dance. The verses invite the audience to clap and dance while cautioning about stereotypes, ending with a credited performer.
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Bradder Jones
An’ Ebery
Emile Pickwanor
World Bibles, oddities, and local curiosities compiled
A miscellany of notes recalls seven great Bibles including the Koran and Vedas, followed by varied items: gas use in London, oddball local tales from Hartford to Louisville, unusual lawsuits, animal mischief, oddball weather, and a double Jacob Rehm election in Louisville.
Zenda Estan of the Persians and Zoroaster Mentioned
Fragmentary text references the Zenda Estan of the Persians, sacred looks, and Zoroaster noted as born in the twelfth century arist. The passage is incomplete and lacks clear news context or events.
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Zoroaster
Gona
Lady hand you a lead quarter in a polite exchange
A Detroit Free Press item recalls a car conductor describing how well dressed ladies would hand him lead quarters for change. He notes he always kept four lead nickels ready to return, making the exchange courteous without comment.
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Detroit Free Press
Coal Carrying Price Dispute Echoes Old Customs
Epoch narrator teases Uncle Rastus about a 35 cent charge for coal delivery. Uncle Rastus responds that prices have changed, noting that seven dollar coal transport at old rates is not expected, reflecting a dialect filled exchange about cost and tradition.
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Uncle Rastus
Rastus
Mistal Smif
Suffering in Silence Ends in Atonement and Marriage
Ida Gray, an orphan living with the Slottsons, faces tragedy as Ralph Ilottson is wrongly imprisoned for Fallin's murder. The real killer is revealed later, clearing Ralph. Ralph and Herbert reconcile, and Ralph asks Ida to marry him, with a village wedding sealing their relief and future.
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New York Morning Journal
Ida Gray
Slottsons
Herbert
Ralph
Herbert Llottson
Fallin
Klottson
Reson
Juno
Ralph Ilottson
Anercy
Ida
Kendal
Pyson
Cheap Lodging Houses Stir City Clergyman’s Findings
A New York clergyman details a Telegram investigation into cheap lodging houses where men from all poverty levels lodge at night for 10 cents to 25 cents. He reports 10 percent have college education, 40 percent are self supporting but choose this life, 10 percent earn good wages, and 20 percent are chronic beggars or thieves. About 5000 men are nightly sheltered, with many being neglectful of married families.
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Stenmetz
London
Lawrence Mills
Marietta
United States
Hartford Post
North Carolina
Wilminton
Raleigh
Charlotte
Ashville
Washington
Penn
Texas
Secretary of the Treasury
Conscience Fund
Washington Star
Burrington Free Press
Elko County
Elko
John Wilkins
Cleveland
Prion
W.lkinnes
Grand Rapids
Mich
Sallie Wilson
Sallie
Fred Warden
Oxford
Catehoula Parish
Lousiana
Electrical Review
Buffalo Courier
Albany
Detroit Free Press
Hays
Ohio Valley
Sankey
Whskey
Cincinnati
Paducah
Minneapolis Tribune
Lyceum
Colored
Centralia
Faoli
Ind
Sheriff Fierce
Owensboro
Court House
William Lewis
New York
Chicago
Rolla
Range
Sam A. Rose
Ashland
Wis
Sam
Rose
New York City
Canada
John Lk
Rib Lake
W S
Erie Canal
Butta O
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Philadelphia
Gaia
Gan
Farmer B
USA
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Danny
Spodobs Volapuk
Volapuk
Lapeer Avenue
Port Huron
New Orleans
Republican
Genesee Republican
Northwest
Grand Forks
Dak
Walsh
Herald Office
Grant Martin
Gracie Silvers
Fairmont
Ill
Morrow
New York Evening World
Louisville
Jacob Rehm
Jacob
Jacob No. 1
No. 2
New York Telegram
Telegram
Deep Mystery Explained by Epoca on Webster Dictionary Idea
Noah Webster conceived the idea for his dictionary during a Boston visit. Hearing many words he could not understand spurred the need for a standard reference.
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Noah Webster
Boston
Fragmentary quarrel overheard about medical care decision
A fragmentary exchange shows a husband and wife arguing over treatment and fear of medical proximity, with the wife insisting she will handle the situation herself despite the husband arriving home late.
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Richard Proctor
Turity
Gamblers
Osvic
J.J. C
New York News
Vlay
Hamlet
Carey
Madame
Chorch
Miss Grig
Bridget Duster
Bridget
Land’s End
Fiora
Lyonnalise Tripe
Lize
Islington, Mass
Home Journal
Christ
Max Muller
Wilson
Jounyon
Whitney
Sara
Vnku
Housekeeping
The
Weekly Globe
American Agriculturist
Weekly
GLOBE
Times
Amerikanischer Agriculturist
FSU
Sea
Mass
Kendall
Endall
Epoeh
John
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