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Indiana Man Creates Mah Jong Game Legend
The Mid-West Review recalls a Hoosier, J P Babcock of Indiana, who invented Mah Jong while in China. A tale of mystery surrounds the game’s origins, its rise in America, and Babcock’s claims of royalties as Mah Jong spreads to the US, Canada, and England.
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Mid-West Review
Michigan
Tutwear and
Zighholz
South Bend
Indiana
James Whitcomb Riley
Edgar Allen Poe
Yellow Kingdom
Shanghai
J. P. Babcock
U. S.A
Hasic
Los Angeles Times
Babcock
Afr
China
Mr. Babcock
Tully Marshall
Wallace Beery
Amercan University
Mah-Fong
America
Canada
England
Mah-Jong