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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1883
Page
3
The text presents a noisy, fragmentary reminiscence from Wheeling with scattered names and places, recounting social scenes, hunting, chores, and a bear incident. It evokes frontier life and intertwined threads of local figures, travel, and household stories, all told in a period newspaper voice.
A lengthy exposé details New Orleans gambling houses on Royal Street and widespread lottery schemes run by a wealthy patron Mr Howard. It depicts licensed games, police indifference, brutal treatment of Black workers unloading cotton, and pervasive vice tied to races, whiskey, and nightly Spanish monte. The piece condemns municipal laxness, cites economic ruin, and calls for reform of gambling and lottery licenses.
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