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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1893
Page
7
The article surveys ancient and modern methods of card cheating. It details passes, false deals, substitutions, the bridge move, and finger work. It notes the need for nerve, steady hands, and years of practice among skilled manipulators and references a French crook who trained for two years in prison.
The article lists common methods used by gamblers to alter and mark playing cards. It describes hidden pockets, holdouts, punctures, acid marks, tiny dots, and a ring device to imprint or view markings. It also notes a mirror setup worn by the dealer to magnify card details during dealing.
The piece discusses sharpers using tricks and loaded packs to cheat at cards, notes honest gambling in some venues, and tells of Giuseppa Maria Floresta, a young Turin woman who posed as Sister Maria Bantissima della Consolata to build and run orphanages, later exposed as a con artist.
A medical note recounts a single night hair blanching during delirium tremens hospital observation, noting a compositor aged 46 with blue eyes turned gray by terror. The item shifts to legends of Stockholm ghosts during a Danish crown prince visit, with apparitions and eerie events described around royal visitors.
A Vienna report describes a celibate order of dandies formed by young aristocrats who vow not to marry. In response, Viennese women vow to refuse all offers from club members and one woman pays the club president to step down, accusing him of repeatedly promising marriage.
Henry Delaney, a drug clerk, is accused of betraying Abbie Oliver as her family abducted him to wed her. A night ride ends with Abbie shot and dying after childbirth, her father killed days later. Louis Land confesses as arrests follow. many named suspects are imprisoned amid fear and scandal.
Reported by Captain Brinkerhoff and Lt Branvelt of the Fifteenth U S Infantry the sea serpent or creature was seen in Lake Michigan near Fort Sheridan. The head resembled an alligator dark above light beneath with a long body described in an S shape. It appeared injured then surfaced again and moved toward Waukegan before vanishing from sight.
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