Maturity of the chance in games and life at risk
A New York Sun summarized essay argues that mature chances govern outcomes in gambling and life. It cites Buffon’s coin trials, Baden Baden’s luck, Casanova and Garcia at tables, and life insurance as practical examples, noting how repeated plays or exposures alter the odds toward unlikely events.
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The
Sun
Buffon
Pall Mall
United Kingdom
Baden-Baden
Europe
Kursaal
Casanova
Garcia
Alx
Savoy
Charles James Pox
England
Fox
Baden- Baden
Privilegarte Bank
New York Sun
The Pushcart Man of New York and His Greek Groundwork
A study of New York pushcart vendors, mainly Greeks, packed with fruit and wares. The padrone system controls buying and profits, while police pressure and language barriers shape daily life, wages, and risks in Washington Street markets.
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New York
Wall Street
Ciy
Washington Street
Fruit Exchange
California
Georgi
New Yorker
Oliver
Battery
Pushcart Vendors Face Police Push in New York
The New York pushcart trade faces strict license enforcement and street-space limits. Greek and Italian vendors crowd the streets, with 8000 peddlers citywide and about 1500 pushcart fruit and peanut sellers in Manhattan. A Pushcart Vendors Protective Association formed in Albany signals organized pushcart interests amid ongoing enforcement.
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Bluecoats
Little Italy
First Avenue
108Th
115Th
Pushcart Vendors
Albany
Washington Street
Bureau of Licenses
Greater
New York
Manhattan
New York Mail and Express
Ghastly attempts to recover corpses at Rietfontein war scene
Correspondence from the Weatrinsier Gazette recounts absurd corps retrievals under heavy fire at Rietfontein. A Boer horse water bottle was perforated by a bullet during a grim maneuver, while a rider’s head was blown away at Lombard's Kop. The account notes Boer hatred of the Fifth Lancers and villagers watching the cavalry clash with mixed reactions.
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Reitfontein
Dr. H
J. Gillespie
Ladysmith
Lombard’s Kop
Fifth Lancers
Hill
Rietfontein
Jonny
End of Chinatown Plague in San Francisco Protest
From St Nicholas Magazine a stark view condemns San Francisco Chinatown as a vile, unsafe district needing radical renewal. The piece compares it unfavorably with New York housing reforms, urges clearing and relocating residents, and calls for sweeping sanitary and urban redesign to protect the general public. It also includes an anecdotal pigeon keeping segment from Pekin via the Argonaut.
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San Francisco
Chinatown
Shrady
New York
United States
Bosen
Argonaut
Pigeon Decoying in Pekin Described by Town Dandies
A historical account explains pigeon decoying in Pekin where locals view kite flying and pigeon racing as games of luck and skill. It details training pigeons to spiral, coop methods, and keeping birds from straying, including feeding practices of millet and sorghum seed to sustain work.
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St. Nicholas Magazine
Ingenious physician threadbare motive linked to Col Jones murder
In New Orleans a police commissioner recounts a case of Dr. Smith, a rising local physician, allegedly poisoning Col. Jones with a forged note and a duplicated tablet of strychnine. The plan failed when Smith fled, contracted pneumonia, and died, but the commissioner asserts the tale is true after tracing Smith to Oklahoma and discovering the doctor’s confession to a woman who blabbed.
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New Orleans
Smith
Col. Jones
Jones
Dr. Smith
Indorser
Oklahoma
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Thirst in Hot Climates and Sanitary Lessons
The passage laments thirst in heat and calls for strict sanitary practices to prevent waterborne disease. It notes that both educated and uneducated respond to thirst alike, risking typhoid and dysentery, and questions investigations into thirst and its remedies.
Immigrant Swindle Exposed At Barge Office
A swarthy woman offered a man a ruse to bribe immigration officials for five dollars. The case reveals a pattern of petty scams around the barge office, with Pinkus the alleged intermediary and Raffi recounting how a watch and chain were pawned. A detective named Grodan denounces such deceit and notes continuing isolated snitching amid the complex immigration laws.
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Dudgen
Immigration
Fitchie
Barge Office
Apedal
Peter Grodan
Sherlock Holmes
Archery
Grodan
Manhattan
Kings
Mail and Express
Old Castle Garden
Giovanni Raffi
Special Board of Inquiry
Italy
Mores Pinkus
Raffi
Battery Park
Pinkus
Ram
Raff
Greenwich Street
Raf
Hartford
Pinkas
Rom
Swindlers, Immigrants and a Jersey City Confrontation
A New York Mail and Express account recalls a sting against barge office frauds. The narrator describes arresting Williams, a purported lawyer, and detailing a pistol-hot exchange with a judge after a cadge scheme involving a father and son. The piece touches on immigrant swindlers, bribery rumors, and the outside misdeeds of immigration officials.
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Barge
Pinkus
Centre Street
Raffi
Barge Office
Special Board of Inquiry
Boyle
Trishman
Willams
Williams
Europe
McSweeney
Jersey City
North River
Anchor
Old Boyle
Young Boyle
Montgomery Street
Fifty-ninth Street
Yorkville
Wiliams
Murphy
Jersey
Gov. Roosevelt
United States
County Wexford
Hat
Evory
New York Mail and Express
A Missionary's Pigtail in China
In Getobet Century recounts Dr. Crawford a Baptist missionary who adopted Chinese dress after early western attire drew crowd curiosity. He found western garb hindered preaching as listeners probed boots and trousers while crowding for baptism. He ultimately wore Chinese dress for years to better reach locals.
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Crawford
China
Laat
Ameriom
Shanghai
Thia
Fragmented OCR Note Highlights Confused Speech
An unreadable OCR fragment shows fractured dialogue with misspelled words. It references affection, a father figure, and an unclear location or event, leaving readers unsure of the exact people or actions involved.
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