Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1901 — Playing Whist for Money. [ARTICLE]

Playing Whist for Money.

“Whist halls” are advertised in the eastern papers. Those Institutions are public resorts, where whist is played for prizeß redeemable in money. Poker parlors are prohibited in large New England cities, but the whist hall is much in vogue.