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Gazette of the United States and Daily Evening Advertiser. D., June 12, 1794 – June 30, 1795. [304] Gazette of the United States and Evening Advertiser. D., Dec. 11 ...
The host of the Pennsylvania Lottery drawings, Nick Perry, and seven others participated in a plot to "rig" The Daily Number, colloquially known as the "Triple Six Fix." On the night of April 24, 1980, the number 666 was drawn; of the then-record $3.5 million payout, $1.8 million was "paid" to those that were in on the fix.
The numbers game, also known as the numbers racket, the Italian lottery, Mafia lottery, or the daily number, is a form of illegal gambling or illegal lottery played mostly in poor and working-class neighborhoods in the United States, wherein a bettor attempts to pick three digits to match those that will be randomly drawn the following day.
The Philadelphia Bulletin (or The Bulletin as it was commonly known) was a daily evening newspaper published from 1847 to 1982 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.It was the largest circulation newspaper in Philadelphia for 76 years and was once the largest evening newspaper in the United States.
The Patriot-News is the largest newspaper serving Harrisburg–Carlisle metropolitan statistical area in central Pennsylvania.In 2005, the newspaper was ranked in the top 100 in daily and Sunday circulation in the United States.
The 1980 Pennsylvania Lottery scandal, colloquially known as the Triple Six Fix, was a successful plot to rig The Daily Number, a three-digit game of the Pennsylvania Lottery. All of the balls in the three machines, except those numbered 4 and 6, were weighted, meaning that the drawing was almost sure to be a combination of those digits.
The Morning Times was founded in 1891. From 1977 to 1991, it was published by George "Scoop" Sample. In 1987, the paper was acquired by Hollinger. [2] Current owner GateHouse Media purchased roughly 160 daily and weekly newspapers from Hollinger in 1997. [3]
Founded by Hiram Young in 1876 as The Evening Dispatch, it is the oldest newspaper still published in York County, Pennsylvania. [1] The newspaper was aligned with Republican politics for about 115 years. [2] Gannett bought the Dispatch in mid-2015. [3] The Dispatch is in a joint operating agreement with the York Daily Record.