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storyWhen The Lottery Put On A SuitPennsylvania did not end the numbers game by persuasion — it built a legal competitor with statewide sales, official drawings, and the power to define gambling as public revenue.HistoryPennsylvania Lotterynumbers game
storyThe Night Pittsburgh Burned the RailroadHow wage cuts, a new operating order, militia gunfire, economic desperation, corporate power and a crowd nobody fully controlled turned Pittsburgh into one of the fiercest battlegrounds of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877.HistoryGreat Railroad Strike1877