The Gambling Evil Sermon in a City We Stand
A Sunday sermon denounces gambling as a pervasive moral plague across Brooklyn New York and New Jersey City. It charts how casino like establishments lure from high end to street level, detailing losses of wealth homes and families, cites real cases of fraud and suicide, and warns against the social ruin of gambling.
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Cairo
Egypt
Pharaoh
Red Sea
Phereck
Nile
Pyramids
Brooklyn
New York
Jersey City
New Jersey
Island
Tropolis
Cesar
Rome
Lycurgus
Sparta
Virgil
Andes
Demosthenes
Athens
Archimedes
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Paul
Tarsus
Argos
Rhodes
Smyra
Chios
Colophon
Homer
Boston
Faneuil Hall
Philadelphia
Mint
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Spuyten
Iyvil Creek
Jamaica
Newark
Sin
Hudson
Connecticut River
God
Moses
Miriam
Romulus
New England
William Penn
Damascus
Beyrout
Madras
Magdalen Asylums
Morning on North Clark Street and a Judge’s Kind Court
Two men scuffle in the pre-dawn streets of Chicago as they share mutual discontent about work and family. A baker and a newspaper man swap fateful shifts and ponder the relentlessness of daily life. A compassionate judge consoles a sobbing first-time prisoner awaiting imprisonment.
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Sam
Hearne
New York
Christenden
Christendom
Vermont
Jephthah
Ore
Virgil
Hell
United States
Perdition
North Clark Street
Judge
Mystic Wolf Dance of the Tonkawa Tribal Rite
Report from the Chicago Herald describes the Tonkawa wolf dance as sacred and secretive. Major Neighbors reportedly witnessed the rite in which fifty wolf dressed warriors unearth a Tonkawa revived from earth and present him to join savage customs. The revived man is warned to survive as wolves or face death.
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Chicago Herald
Old woman in Atchison clings to life in nightly ritual
An elderly Black woman in Atchison long prepared for death by dressing in a blue gown each night. She was repeatedly surprised to wake alive each morning, wearing out several new dresses before she finally stopped.
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Atchison
The Dog Designer of Paris Shapes mongrel to noble canines
A Parisian “dog designer” captures stray dogs to sculpt and dye them into lookalikes of prized breeds. He clips, dyes, and adds ears, transforming mongrels into hound or terrier surrogates, then moves on as soon as the fur grows out. A Dalmatian tale ends with cropped ears and a shocked owner.
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Paris
New York Journal
San Diego Girl Triumphs in Clever Ocean Feat
A College of Letters swimming student from San Diego outwits sneaking boys at Mission Bay. She teaches her companions to swim, retrieves their stolen oars, and crosses to the boathouse after swimming half a mile. Her skill and leadership leave her peers reliant and impressed.
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San Diego
Pacific Beach
College of Letters
Cave
Mission Bay
Cal. Union
Number of European men Ready for Service Reaches 11.9 Million
A figure shows 11,900,090 men in Europe available for mobilization. The tally reflects the pool considered for future military call up as wartime demands grow.
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Europe
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Harrow
Northumberland
England
Porter
Lass Abe
St. Iless
San Francisco
Mires
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Jove
Satan
Fiene
George
Chicago Tribune
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