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1939 PUERTO RICO: Only legal lottery in US helps hospitals
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0:36Now PlayingDate: 13th April 1939
Location: PUERTO RICO, WEST INDIES
Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS)
PUERTO RICO:
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General view of city of Puerto Rico. / sign "Loteria" / girls in street buying tickets / man buying ticket / General view Draw of Lottery tickets / turning wheel-basket in which are lottery tickets / man picking up numbers / man presenting $15,000 to Gensolo Ramos / General view of new Hospital built on lottery money / General view of new Rural Clinic built from lottery money / General view of Tubercular Hospital, built from lottery money.
Medicine and Health; Gambling; Fund Raising; Colonialism; United States of America
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