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Show 18 UNLUCKY PAPER MONEY. H Racing Men Clip Corners Off Two- H Dollar Notes Before Getting. 1 Large numbers or clipped two-'dol- B lnr bllta have touched the treasury H deiMirtmetil at WaRhington for re- mW dnmption In the laat three years. fH Them hlllx are all coruerless. That 'H Ib, all four corners have either been H torn off or neatly cut off with scissors IH or knife. The officials who Intel ost jH theinholvea In tracing such things jH cpilckly ascertalnen that a supersth H (ion of racing people lay back of the H coruerloHs iwo-dollar bills. It was B fouryl that nonie warfi ago tho pikers jtM In tho racing gamo developed nn an- jH tipathy to tho two-dollar notes, com 1 Hlderlng thern unlucky. Their method" H of exorcising the devil of Ill-luck JH clinging to the two dollar bill was to H tear or cut off the corners beforu mU putting It Into play. The idea spread. tM It infected the bookmakers and sonio mm bookmakers who received largo mini- mmm bora of two-dollar bills In thu course I of n day's operations fell Into the in habit of clipping with scissors the WM corners of such notos as they couldn't tH unload upon their associates. Now H it 13 reported that distrust of tho two- H dollar note Is becoming general and 'H that the cornerletts notes ate appear. 'km lug in many UlSorent pluses. mm |