Playing Faro in the Orient Saloon Finish:Single Lower class workers had long

Lower class workers had long been encouraged to save so as to provide for themselves and their families during the frequent seasonal periods of unemployment that caused so many families to drift into real poverty

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From Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon by Austen Henry Layard (1817-1894)

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He received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930

Playing Faro in the Orient Saloon Finish:Single Lower class workers had longPlaying Faro in the Orient Saloon, Bisbee, Arizona, USA, 1903. The man in the silk hat is Smiley Lewis, while John Murphy is dealing. The town of Bisbee grew rapidly in the early 20th century due to the mining of gold, silver and copper.