Gambling and drinking also went hand-in-hand, and lead to financial ruin and violence, as shown in the illustration of a fight in a fashionable gambling den where an unlucky young man attacks the foreign scoundrel who has cheated him under false pretenses. The scene was engraved by J. W. Orr for a story in Oliver & Brother’s Pictorial Temperance Almanac for 1850.

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