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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1898
Page
10
An extended warning essay details slick cheats in games of chance and the ruinous rise and fall of gamblers. It recounts loaded dice, marked cards, and a San Francisco bank heist, then laments the social drift toward gambling, urging safeguards and condemning the moral wreckage.
A Chicago Post quote shows a clash between a boarding school head claiming to train women to control themselves in emergencies and a prospective mother seeking a school to teach women how to control their husbands, highlighting a longstanding gender dynamic.
A Chicago Record anecdote notes a curious tale where a woman attempts to curb her husband's swearing by herself swearing in reply. She claims success though she wrecks her parrot in the process, illustrating quaint domestic humor from the era.
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