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Entertaining with cards (1900)

U.S. Playing Card Co · Cincinnati, O., The United States playing card co · leaf 45

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Entertaining with Cards. 39 what was in store for them they were met by the host, clad in a gray ulster and flourishing a lantern, and the hostess, in a gray traveling suit. The library had been converted into a ''waiting room" and contained a "ticket office," from which an obliging agent… … Bulletin boards of black card-board showed trains late on every road except the one on which they were to make their journey, and signs of all descriptions were scattered about the walls. A ''news stand" helped furnish amusement, distributing old maga- zines and almanacs covered with wrapping…

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