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'The Pit' by Frank Norris, published by Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd in London, Edinburgh and New York in 1903, is a novel largely set in the Chicago commodities market. It contains two incidental references to Paper Darts.

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This first passage mentions 'paper javelins', which it seems to me are undoubtedly Paper Darts.

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This second passage mentions discarded paper-darts.

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