[Ads-l] eucre (card game) antedated to 1837 (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill CIV (US)]

CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED

Further antedating:
 
 
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> Wild Card (OED = 1940)
> 
> _Chicago Daily Tribune_ 3/27/1921 sec 2 p 1 "A good variation of five card stud is one wild card faced in the center which every one can
> use."


Reading PA _Reading Times_ 30 May 1916 p 4 col 4
"Tom -- All jacks, and nothing wild.
Lou -- That's the idear.  Wild cards are a joke."


CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED

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