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Show Carrie Nation Is Too Positive Loses a Bet of S50 on Her Contention Conten-tion That Roosevelt Used Tobacco. WASHINGTON, May 21. Carrie Nation loses 550 as tho result of a belief that President Roosevelt uses tobacco. Mrs. Nation recently entered the qfilce of the Anti-Cigarette league In Chicago and, poking her umbrella through the portrait por-trait of the President, said: "He's a smoker and a chewcr." Lucy Page Gaston, to whom the remark re-mark was addressed, replied It was not BO. "If you will prove It to me I will give the league 550," said Mrs. Nation. Whereupon Miss Gaston wroto Secretary Secre-tary Loeb. Mr. Loeb answered: "The President does not and never has used tobacco In any form." |