Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 152, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1916 — Lottery for Navy. [ARTICLE]

Lottery for Navy.

Greece supports her navy in part by a public lottery, known as the royal Greek naval lottery. The navy receives 70 per cent of the gains and the Grecian Archeological society the remainder. In the last decade the lottery distributed $1,216,384 in prites, the navy got a little more and the Archeological society $521,000. The lottery tickets, which are sold by men and boys on the street, are bought outright from the government before being sold to the individual purchasers.