Fortune at cards: Scott the illiterate gambler of White's
The 18th century English gambler John Scott, largely illiterate, amassed a fortune at White's in London from 1753 to 1780, surpassing £5,000,000 in today’s terms, while maintaining calm, fair play and strategic restraint. He outlived rivals like Sir John Bland and Charles James Fox, and his career contrasted with Fox’s scholarly studying after losses. Scott avoided excess, kept to manageable stakes, and stayed composed even when luck turned, eventually clocking immense wealth from card games.
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England
John Scott
London
Richard Bentley
Arlington Street
Horace Walpole
John Bland
Hazard
Duke of Bedford
St. James Street
Sadler’s Hermits
John
Scott
Kippax Park
Anne
Charles Ti. Monmouth
Scot
George
Sir John Bland
White's
Charles James Fox
Pitt
Fox
Sophocles
Aschylus
White’s
White
Run to Earth Great Detectives Seize Exitdoers
A Cleveland Plain Dealer fiction excerpt shows Officer Sleuth arresting a woman and locking up her husband after she confesses a murder plan. The chief orders surveillance and attempts to extract confessions, noting the couple’s reactions and the detectives’ determination as the sun rises over prairie grass.
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Wellz
Prairie Bunch
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Man Swallowed by Alligator Survives and Walks Again
Edward Rowland, once swallowed whole by a Florida alligator near Dunn's Creek, survived with crushed ankles after his parents and a shot alligator were involved. Rescued hours later, he bears braces but lives to tell the tale of the extraordinary incident at St Johns River near Sanford.
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Edward Rowland
Rowland
Sanford
Fla
Dunn's Creek
Florida
St. Johns River
Rome
Eye Treatment Said To Cure Epilepsy In 25 Cases
A New York Medical Journal report by Dr Ambrose Ranney details using eye muscle correction to halt seizures in 25 patients most treated with bromides long term. One had epilepsy 24 years. seven years later no recurrence. Another patient ceased violent paroxysms after treatment. A third is healthy and active in business for three years.
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New York
Ambrose L. Ranney
Perhaps He Does Eloped With Another Man's Wife
A Chicago photographer has eloped with another man's wife. The abandoned husband may not look pleased, reflecting courtship scandal and marital strain in a brisk Washington Post notice.
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Chicago
Washington Post
Lucy Parsons in Chicago Anarchist Legacy and Modern Views
Special Correspondence from Chicago reports on Lucy Parsons and fellow 1880s anarchists as memory and influence persist. It notes Parsons independence, current work at Avondale cottage, and her belief in individualism and an anarchist state, while detailing Schwab Neebe Fielden ties, shifting groups, and ongoing socialist leanings among survivors.
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Chicago
Walheim Cemetery
August Spies
Sam Fielden
Oscar W. Neade
Ames
William H. Holmes
Parsons
the Law
Holmes
New Century Club
Tolis
Miller
Schwab
Neebe
Fielden
Michael Schwab
Gibwab
Oscar W. Neebe
West Randolph Street
Sone
Lucy Parsons
Avondale
Omnivorous Corporation of
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W.jarvis
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Dante
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