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Dr. H. H. Kane and the 19th Century “Hash-Heesh” Smoking Parlors of NYC

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A number of raids of New York “smoking parlors” appear in the news in 1895. There was an illustration from the Illustrated Police News from 1876, captioned as a “secret dissipation of New York belles: Interior of a Hasheesh Hell on Fifth Avenue”. Have no fear. I will see that no harm befalls you.’”. Coakley, 1897.

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