Hoosiers OK budget, slots, higher cigarette tax
INDIANAPOLIS The Indiana House and Senate adjourned for the year shortly before midnight yesterday after passing a budget, property-tax relief and a bill that permits slot machines at Indiana’s horse tracks. The cost of a pack of cigarettes also will increase by 44 cents to pay for an Indiana insurance program for low-income Hoosiers
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- By the 18th and 19th centuries a dice game called Hazard had become popular in England and was played by the aristocracy in private gambling houses.
- Massachusetts decriminalized bingo in 1931 in an attempt to help churches and charitable organizations raise money. Bingo was legal in 11 states by the 1950s, usually only for charity purposes.
- It was during the 1930's that slot machines began to become very popular across America, and in the late 40's Bugsy Siegel added machines to his Flamingo Hilton hotel in Las Vegas.
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