Salt Lake Herald | 1896-11-04 | Page 11 | Queer Bets |

Type	issue
Date	1896-11-04
Paper	Salt Lake Herald
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
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Article Title	Queer Bets
Type	article
Date	1896-11-04
Paper	Salt Lake Herald
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
Page	11
OCR Text	Show I QUEER BEST BES-T ey Include Pulling of Teeth and Catting of Hair and Whiskers LONDON Nov 3It is estimated that 500tOOO in bets ha been plaQed in London on the result of the election in the United States Colonel Wilson of Chicago made a wager of 1000 even today that McKinley would be elected The bet was taken by F W Fullon a Chicago Bryanite Besides the ordinary ordin-ary election bets there has been considerable ar electon siderable freak betting General Morgan Mor-gan a Brooklyn silverite made a bet on which he engaged in the event of Bryans defeat to have all his feeth drawn In the event of McKinleys defeat de-feat his opponents four in number agree to have their beards and moustaches mous-taches shaved off The parties to the bet are under a penalty of 5500 each incase in-case of failure to fulfil the terms of the bet Articles have been signed and witnessed to that effect 0 C
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