The Daily Lottery Was Originally a Harlem Game. Then Albany Wanted In.

In the early 1920s, Casper Holstein, a black man from the Danish West Indies who worked as a porter for a Fifth Avenue store, liked to study the “Clearing House” totals published in a year’s worth of newspapers he’d saved.

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