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UNITED STATESPATENT OFFICE.
JAMES HARRISON NOONAN, OF SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA.PLAYING-CARDS.
Specification of Letters Patent. . Patented March 27, 1906.
Application filed September 8, 1904. Serial No. 223,760.To all whom. it may concern:
Be it known that I, JAMEs HARRISON Noo-
NAN, a citizen of the United States, residing
at SanDiego, in the county of San Diego and
. State of California, have invented certain
new and useful Improvements in Playing-
Cards; and I do declare the following to be a
full, clear, and exact description.of the inven-
tion, such as will enable others skilled in the
1o art to which. it- appertains to make and use
the same.
My invention relates to card games of that
character designed to impart information of
a historical and political nature and at the
15 same time to amuse, entertain, and engage
the players in a contest involving the elec-
tion of candidates of their own choice for the
Presidency and Vice-Presidency.
One of the principal objects of my inven-
2o tion is to provide a' card game in which the
players are called upon to display political
judgment of a character similar to that re-
quired of delegates in national conventions or
electors in the electoral college and at the
25 same time to render the game sufficiently
complex to hold the interest of the players to
the election of the candidate of their choice.
To this end my inventionconsists of a pack
of two hundred and eight cards, divided into
30 four sets, each set comprising fifty-two cards,
and each card representing a State or Terri-
tory of the Union.
To better explain the arrangement and use
of the cards, reference may be had to the ac-
35 companying drawings,-in which-
Figure 1 illustrates a card to be known as
an "eagle" card, to be hereinafter referred to.
Fig. 2 shows the face of a "flag" card. Fig.
3 illustrates a "banner" card. Fig. 4 shows
40 a "star" card, and Fig. 5 illustrates a letter-
block which forms one of the accessories to
the game.
The two hundred and eight cards of a full
pack being divided into four sets of fifty-two
45 cards each provides a number sufficiently to
accommodate several players. Each one of
the fifty-two cards contains the name of a
State or Territory, the District of Columbia
and the unorganized Indian Territory-being
5o added to the States and Territories to make
up the complement-fifty-two cards.
By referring to the accompanying draw-
ings, which'represent four cards of different
values, it will be seen that Fig. 1 contains
55 at the top the name of John Sherman. Un-
der this name is an eagle within a circle con-taming the numeral 1. Below the circle are
the names of James A. Garfield, William' Mc-
Kinley, and Allan G. Thurman. Within a cir-
cular border below these names are the words 6o
Ohio-twenty-three electors. From this card
it will be understood that this is the Ohio
eagle card No. 1. The other three Ohio
eagle cards will contain the same subject-
matter, but the names will be transposed on 65
each card, so' that each one of the names will
appear at the top of one card in the series.
Fig. 2 illustrates one of the North Dakota
cards, flag card No.. 9, and contains four
names of representative men from that State, 70
together with the number of eletors and sub-
ject-matter corresponding to that given in
Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 represents the face of the Illinois
banner card No. 1, and Fig. 4 indicates, the 75
face of Maine star card No. 8.
In each set of fifty-two cards there are thir-
teen eagle cards, thirteen flag cards,. thirteen
banner cards, and thirteen star cards. Each
of the eagle cards is numbered serially from 8o
"1"to "13," while each of theflag cards, ban-
ner cards, and star cards is numbered in like
manner, the purpose of which is to aid the
player in determining what card'to call forin
order to complete his hand in playing the 85
game. The purpose of defining the cards as
"eagle," "flag," &c., isgto give a sufficient
number of cards to permit several players to
participate in the game and to give a certain
variation in values to said cards. The States 9
selected as the eagle States are those in which
the entire set of thirteen cards will represent
one hundred and twenty-five electors when
added together. The same system is also
applied to the flag States, the banner States, 95
and the star States. To illustrate this sys-
tem-
The Eagle States.
No. 1, Ohio----------------------- 23eetr.N. 23 ea - -----------1 electors. C
No.1 2,iTexas......... ...............183 electors.
No. 3, Georgia 1------------- ------ 13 electors.
No. 4, North Carolina-------------12 electors.
No. 5, Alabama------------------11 electors.
No. 6, Kansas-------------------10 electors.
No. 7, California------------------ 10 electors.
No. 8, Louisiana ------- ------------ 9 electors.
No. 9, Washington----------------5 electors.
No. 10, Florida-------------------- 5 electors.
No. 11, Idaho--------------------3 electors. 105
No. 12, Alaska-------------------- 3 delegates.
No. 13, Arizona-------------------- 3 delegates.
Total---------------------125 electors and delegates.
From the foregoing it will be noted that
the four sets of cards known as "flag," "ban- ia
ner," "star," and "eagle" each represent
one hundred and twenty-five electoral votes .No. 816,119..
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Noonan, James Harrison. Playing-Cards., patent, March 27, 1906; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth513058/m1/2/: accessed June 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.