The Biggest Gambler in Saratoga Pat Canfield
Saratoga talk centers on Pat Sheedy praising Americans as top gamblers while Pat Canfield stands as the greatest bettor in the United States. He runs the Saratoga club and Newport house with no backers, facing high limits and bold losses. He is a reclusive, highly skilled bookmaker with Quaker roots, educated in Providence, and a lifelong focus on gambling profits.
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Save the Petrified Forest Prompts Urgent Action
New York Sun reports a likely fall congressional bill to set the Arizona Petrified Forest near Holdbrook as a government reservation. Prof. Lester Ward urged withdrawal from entry to protect vast fossil logs and the Chalcedony bridge as tourists access increases.
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Strangest, saddest of cities Benares as described by Flora Annie Steel
In a vivid extract from Popular Monthly, Flora Annie Steel portrays Benares as the strangest, saddest city on God's earth. She paints sunless alleys perfumed with spent incense, sacred shrines lining narrow passages, and a crowded, defiled feeling as ritual and neglect intersect along the ghats and walls.
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The Night of the Louvre Bell and the Run for Louis
In dawn light, an escape moves through riotous streets as Pavannes and I join a convoy toward safety. The bell of St Germain l Auxerrois tolls amid the crowd, and Guise and Coligny loom over the massacre, while we race by torchlight toward a guarded gate and the hope of rescue.
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Why She Was Pensive Washington Star Moment of doubt over angel label in heated moonlit moment.
A woman ponders being called an angel as a man pressures for an answer. She replies with a cool, businesslike request to think it over before responding.
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Doctor volunteers to nurse Chinese leper in isolation
Dr Louis Knapp, a St Louis physician, leaves family to care for Dong Gong, a Chinese leper found in the city. He will live in a quarantine house with the patient for up to five years, serving as doctor and cook. The city will spend about 1000 to 1300 dollars yearly for care. Five other applicants sought the post, but Knapp was chosen for his medical skill and strong endorsements.
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Railroads taxed far less than value they held, Chicago panel says
Chicago officials indict railroads for tax breaks and passes that cost Cook County taxpayers millions. Alderman Winwegen said railroad property was undervalued by the state board of equalization by about 19 million dollars, with total Cook County property valued far below its true worth. The committee urged laws to stop pass transfers by public officials and to widen railroad taxation. A separate Cleveland anecdote recalls a Sunday school lesson misremembered by children, as a teacher learns the limits of memory.
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Children of Israel
Promised Land
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