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Gambling In Calcutta

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Parent Issue
Day
12
Month
October
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Gambling on the next rain and its dnration has become so great a vice in Calcutta that the government has been oalled on to suppress it. Clerks on the way to their offices stop at comrnission houses to place bets, and the woinen have been seized with the mania, so that they do uot only pawn their own and borrowed jewels, but go further to procure money to gamble with. The bookmakers risk no money of their own and charge a small commission for kandlmg the bets. -

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News