Gambling raid staged at Bypass Bar & Grill

MUNCIE State excise police and Indiana State Police on Thursday night conducted a gambling raid at Bypass Bar and Grill, 3520 S. Meeker Ave.

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Fri, May 30th, 2008

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  • In Paris, legislation prohibiting playing cards was passed in 1377, and in Italy, playing cards and dice were burned.
  • Gambling became legalized in Vegas in 1931 by Mayme V. Stocker and J.H. Morgan who was issued Clark County Gaming License No. 1.
  • The current wave of legal lotteries started in New Hampshire, spread to other North-Eastern states, and then across the nation.
  • Lotteries were brought to America in the 1800s by the thousands of Chinese immigrants who worked in the mines and on the railroads.