Narragansett Pier’s Continued Gambling Under Scrutiny
The 1908 raid did not end gambling at Narragansett Pier. By 1916 the resorts run covertly with selective access, secret memberships, and paid steerer networks. Casinos, dice games, roulette, and poker operate in private rooms while polo betting and home games among society women proliferate.
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John W. Gates
Saratoga Race Tracks
Country Club
Saratoga
Rhode Island
Pier
The
Hartford Courant
American Fishing Boats Seized Off Iceland
London reports British patrol boats seized American schooners Maxine Elliott of Gloucester and Lizzie Griffin of Bangor off Iceland and to Lerwick Shetland. Lucinda J. Lowell also taken to Lerwick but released after unloading dried herring cargo.
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London
Maxine Elliott
Gloucester
Mass
Lizzie Griffin
Bangor
Maine
Iceland
Lerwick
Shetland Islands
Lucinda J. Lowell
Norway
Congress weighs arbitration plan modeled on New Zealand
Washington August 24 Legislation to create a board of arbitration for interstate rail labor disputes is under serious discussion in Congress and in the Wilson administration. The plan would bar employers from striking and roads from operating during arbitration, with workers and railroads bound to accept the arbiter’s ruling if they continue working.
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Interstate Commerce Commission of Congress
Wilson
New Zealand
Crocker Land Arctic Expedition Arrives Copenhagen
Ensign Fitz Hugh Green, assigned to the Crocker land Arctic expedition, reports safe arrival in Copenhagen on August 19. He has not indicated whether Crocker land was found or the fate of McMillan and other scientists. Green will return to Washington as directed. Navy wireless operator Jerome Lee Allen accompanied him to New York.
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New York
Boston
Providence
Rhode Islanders
Dick” Canfield
Roger Williams
Rhode Island
Monte Carlo
Pier
New England
Marya Mar
Washington
Fitzhugh Green
McMillan Crocker
Million Dollar Cargo Leaves Wilmington
The steamer City of Memphis sails from Wilmington for Havre with 13 640 bales of cotton valued at a million dollars. The shipment marks one of the largest cotton cargoes from the port this year.
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Wilmington
City of
Memphis
Messrs
Alexander Sprunt and Sons
Havre
France
Durham Professor Announces Woodrow Wilson Book
Dr. Eugene Brooks of Trinity College states he is writing a new book titled Woodrow Wilson as President. The work, due to be issued soon, aims to influence the Democratic campaign for Wilson’s re election.
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Durham
Eugene ©. Brooks
Trinty College
Woodrow Wilson
Wilson
Tollo Water Liver Tonic Advertises Health Claim
An old newspaper ad promotes Tollé Vi and Tolló Water from Dawson Springs as liver cleansing tonics. It claims indoor living and rich foods burden the liver causing gas, heartburn, constipation, and dull headaches, and promises relief with a morning glass of Tollé Water and periodic use for maintenance. The Dawson Springs health resort is cited and Hart Drug Co. markets the product.
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Dawson Springs
Tollo Water
Tollo
Hart Drug Co
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Copenhagen
Baok
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