The Day Book, 3 October 1916, image 3: Mont Tennes and the General News bureau
No headline for the gambling item on this page; the page's headline is "Tents Serve as Hospitals on Battle Front in France!"
- Paper
- The Day Book (Chicago, Ill.)
- Date
- 1916-10-03
- Page
- Image 3
- Headline
- No headline for the gambling item on this page; the page's headline is "Tents Serve as Hospitals on Battle Front in France!"
- Rights
- A United States newspaper published in 1930 or earlier. Public domain in the United States. The Library of Congress serves the page from Chronicling America.
Image 3 of the Day Book for Tuesday, 3 October 1916 opens in the middle of a gambling story. It begins with a question and answer from the inquiry: “Were you told over the wire that the Postal Telegraph Co. says it won’t accept your business from now on?” “Yes, that’s what I was told.”
It goes on: “Mont Tennes and syndicate, said to clear $75,000 a year through its General News bureau selling race-track dope, sells his ‘news’ service delivered over Automatic phones to forty or more betting places and gambling joints, according to a list of places furnished Judge Landis.” It says the list came from two sources, one of them an investigator for a citizens’ association, and that one police precinct led with 17 gambling places.
The rest of the page is a photograph of a Canadian tent dressing station in France and items on the 1916 presidential campaign. The figure of $75,000 a year is the paper’s “said to” report. This archive does not take from it any finding about Tennes or the places listed.