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About Oregon City courier. (Oregon City, Or.) 1902-1919 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1904)
OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDAY, OCT. 21 1904. It Pill 07 fP3 I L i 11 M i H 1 " f 1st PRIZE' Scholarship in the International Correspond ence School of Scranton, Pennsylvania; or, at the option of the winner, ft A cut and full description ohthis sideboard will be given in our next issue. The sideboard can be seen in the. window of F. Busch's furniture store, Weinhard building. THE SfctOLARSHIP Regular value of which is Fifty Dollars, entitles the holder to a complete course in the famous correspondence school. It is transferable. 200 Courier Subscribers Will Eadi Secure A Prize 3rd PRIZE 2nd PRIZE Scholarship in the International Corres- ft pondence School of Scranton, Pennsyf-1 vania; or, if this be chosen by winner of the first prize 0 This handsome Ladies' Dressing Table may be seen in W. L. Block's furniture store, corner 7th and Tvain Streets, It is made of bird's-eye maple. 'Value $SO.O BOW MANY BEANS Do You Think This Jar Contains ? An Ordinary quart jar lias been filled with small wliite beans by D.M. Klemsen, V. Harris and Miles & McGlaslian, permanently sealed, and placed in the Courier window The Best Two Hundtzd Estimates of the number of Beans in the jar will secure a prize in The Courier guessing contest cut and full description of this sideboard will be given in our next issue. The sideboard can be seen in the window of K Busch's furniture store, Wein hard building. ' THE SCHOLARSHIP Regular value of which is Fifty Dollars, entitles the holder to a complete course in the famous correspon dence school. It is transferable. n 7th PRIZE if . t. , . ...... J.. . . Handsome Morris Easy Chair may be seen in W. L. Block's furniture store, corner 7th and Main Streets. 4th PRIZE This set of books, consisting ot 32 volumes, entitled Makers of Literature, contains ' biographies of the following noted authors: Geoffrey Chaucer Edmund Spenser Sir Philip Sidney Francis Bacon John Mlton Tnlin Rnnvan B John Dryden John LocKe Daniel Defoe Jonathan Swift Joseph Addison Alexander Pope Samuel Johnson David Hume Thomas Gray Oliver Goldsmith Edmund Burke William Cowper Edward Gibbon Richard B. Sheridan Robert Burns William Wordsworth Sir Walter Scott Robert Southey Charles Lamb Percy Byssche Shelley Thomas De Quiucy Lord Byron John Keats Thomas B. Wacaulay William M. Thackeray Charles Dickens 88 PRIZES 88 volumes to be selected k from the works of standard ft authors. Titles will be pub lished in later issue. 5th PRIZE HIS MASTERS VOICED This fine Graphophone may be seen in the window of Burmeister & Andresen, jewelry store, corner 7th and Main Streets. Value say. m 6th PRIZE i I See it in Lamb & Sawyer's bicycle and gun shop window. Double barrel, J2-gaugc shot gun. Value .$15. The Contest Will Close on Friday, Decembe 23 CUT THIS OUT Oregon City Courier: En closed find 1.50 in payment of one year's advance subscription (or in payment of one year's back subscription; for the Ore gon City Courier. My estimate of the number of beans in the jar is, Dated the day of 1904 Name , w Address Remember You can send in your sub scription to take effect at any time in,the future. For instance, if your 'subscription to any pa per or periodical expires Jan. 1, 1905, and you wish to take the Courier next year in its place, you can subscribe for the Cour ier now, to commence Jan. 1st, and get the benefit of our prize offer. The Courier is not charging anything extra for the large amount distributed in prizes. A large circulation is the object in view. This will insure higher advertising rates and thus repay ,us. Every one gets full value for his money, and a large per cent get many times the value of their money. This is where a legitimate guessing contest differs from a lottery. 10 PRIZES 10 20th Century Cyclopedias Such a work should be in every home. Value $5.50 Each The Courier Our Offer Wants 1000 new Subscribers be- The Courier has selected two fore the first of the new year, hundred prizes ranging in value If you will be one of them, we from Fifty Cents to Fifty Dollars, will satisfy you during I905, that Every year's subscription, for a county paper can be something the Courier alone or in combina more than waste paper. We are with other papers, going to make the Courier more Every $1.50 paid on back sub readable, more newsy and better scriptions entitle you to one in every respect than ever be- guess, fore. ' The nearest guess to the num- If you are behind on payment ber of beans in the jar gets first for your subscription to the prize, the second best guess gets Courier, this is a good time to second prize, and so on through catch up. out the whole list of prizes. Clip off the corner of this ad, Guesses will be received up to fill in the blank: with your name, and including the 23d of next address, and estimate of the num- December. On December 24th ber of beans in the jar, and send the beans will be counted and it in with your back payment, award of prizes made by three Make one guess for each $1.50 well-known business men of Ore sent, gon City. 8th Prize: To be selected; will be named in later' issue. 9th Prize: French China Tea Set, value $6,5o. 10th Prize: Fancy Hall Rack, value $6.00. 2 1st to 30th Prizes: "Se crets of Success and Happi ness." 10 prizes, value 3. 50 each. 50 Prizes: Young People's His tory of the World. 50 his tories, value 1.50 each. 32 Prizes: Mrs. Gatchell's new book, "What a Woman Did." 32bookf, value $1. 25 each. I. MIBHTft'gga r
