Casino could put tour in a bad fix

I had no recorded objection whatsoever to being born on an Indian reservation, in a Salamanca hospital no more than a mile from this new century’s glittering Seneca Allegany Casino. Priorities change. Salamanca no longer has a hospital.

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Sun, August 13th, 2006

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Do you know that:

  • Although baccara has its origins in medieval Italy, it soon spread to France, where it was called "chemin de fer" (meaning railway, due to the action of the card box or shoe passing around the table on "tracks").
  • The Gold Rush brought a huge increase in the amount and types of gambling to California. San Francisco replaced New Orleans as the center for gambling in the United States.
  • The Great Wall of China was financed, in part, by a lottery. The Bible is replete with references to drawing lots. Lot casting was a favored means of communication between man and god.
  • Legal gambling operations in Washington reported $1.7 billion in net receipts in 2005: 61 percent was reported by tribal casinos, 10 percent came from the state lottery. 2 percent of responders in a February state survey said they placed bets online.