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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL PORTLAND, s WEDNESDAY EVENING. APRIL 8. 1C03. PRIZE STORIES SPREAD FAME OFOREGOH COUNTRY Commercial CluVs Capital Prize of $1,000 Goes to Kev. ' jr. ft Straton of Baltimore Miss ;3rateel Howe, ' ' Young1 Woman Writer "of Portland Is Second. v WOMEN WHO BELIEVE ffPERUNA' . Honest Women Who Are Not Afraid to Tcil the Truth About Pe-ru-ca. ' illu Mateel Howe, of Portland, young writer who won $500 prle. ohn Roach. Straton, pastor of the I Oregon appointed tnree juages ".P"" First Baptist Church of Baltimore, won Dt-bn"7Ubmtttod within th first orlse of 11.000 In the Portland the scheduled time. The Judges were Commercial club's competitive 'oontest Professor Jsrnes F. Ejrlnf , ortlajaa for the best article, written about 0- .J: UrX ion ma puousaea . in owaypa i iy uregonian. junormous periodicals outside of this atate. A delivered to eacn juogo. at atJV.SCYi i iim v Vtl.. u.tul "DO nrrwi uyva u.w w " ?, " ,i "T Vh.-I -IV- -rfnth-rl reading over and over again tne great Howe of Portland. - There were 7 other ?f matta.. and marklnr each artl- the Commercial club ,b,n f'fcl, land Commercial club exchange a word , The Judges completed hr laborj wth th. govenlor ahout whom he and submitted their .report : to Manarer ,oouM appolntt nor wltB-.ther Ofthe Tom Richardson last evening, and when aAmam. concarnlna- their work. ThT the names of winners of the bis; prises became known there were many tele phone bells ringing over the city, ex cited contestants uonufini tuuimiu lations among the Portland winners of various sums. ..Scores of local people were Interested in the outcome, an enor . mnui amount of matter bavins; been written In this city for eastern publica tions. It Is estimated that the value of the advertising received by the state through tne press , or. tne country wui exceed Iioo.ooo. , -r, Offered Tw Tears Ago. T. e Commercial club's offer was pub llKhed nearly two years ago. It was worded to induce visitors and others to writ to their home paper about Ore gon. . Mr. Richaraaons announcement ran? - - - - . "So that your trip to Oregon may be free, the Portland commercial ciuo naa offered 15,000 In cash prises for articles tn annaar In vour old home Daper on Portland. Oregon, and this portion of the United States." . Tha nrizea offered were: First prise ......w. ....... $1,000 Second prise ............... 600 Third prise 260 Fourth orise 300 Firth prise ...L. ................. ITS Sixth nrlse ., 160 Seventh prise ................... Kightb prise Ninth prise ........ Tentn prise ..................... Ten prises of $78 each were simply given the printed rules of tn oontest ana lert to max weir way M beat they might. 1 .Overwhelming Beturna. Concerning the results of the contest Manager Tom Richardson amid this moralng: ' rne response to tne uommercuy 121 110 100 90 760 Ten crises of 160 each ........... 600 Ten prises of $25 each ........... 260 Twenty prises of $18 eaeh...,. Twenty prises or 910 eacn Three Judges to be named by Hon. ueorge E. .Chamberlain, governor or Oregon .... ....... .. .. . soo 200 100 rtppetlte, enjoy and perfect x xl health.- " , C ' v.- J i 4 " 5 MRS. F. E. HENDERSON J. 1 1 The Value f HealUi. r Wbo can it $ money yalne on aeaitnr It la absolutely prloelesa. No one la good health can folly appreciate what it meana to bare poor health. The daye are long and todlons, . The Blghte horrible and painful, , Nothing gota right. ; Even the m lad beoomes deranged and In Jnred by continued poor health. , ' Once liberated frotn the thraldom of ' alokneag worda fall to ezpreaa we joy and relief. - - - Pernna haa been the meant of re tiering more women from ill health in the United StaUa than, perhaps, any other medicine; , v?; ' A multitude of women etand ready' to give tee umony in favor 01 reruna- whenever oooaalon offers. , , ;'- OyapeniU Entirely Relieved. "Mlaa UlUe 0. MartTn, Shelbyrilli xenn wnteet "Ererybody aaya X look bettor than I hare for two or three " yeara and Z alnoerely thank you for your kind advice. . I believe your treatment haa en nrely cured me. I eaa eat anything J want. I belleye your remodlee win irare any eaee of lodlgeeUoa or dyt-' pepala.' : , ; ' t I. Caught Cold Easily. Mrs. F. E. Henderson, 221 Ninth 8t. Milwaukee. Wis., writes: "1 never had any faith in patent medicines until I tried Peruna, out my experience with this reliable medicine has taught me that there la lw t...r.J Art4 hlh will nnt tail In Hm. nt vimwI. "For the past few years I have found that I caught eold eaaUy.v which would settle in a moat unpleasant catarrn of tne neaa. t naa -to be especially careful about being out of evenings, and not to get chilled when dressed thin for parties, but since I have ueed Peruna my gen eral health la Improved, and my system Is In such good, condition that even though I am exposed to inclement weather It no longer affects me. 1 have a splendid appetite and enjoy Ufa, being In perfect health." MISS HELEN 5AUERBIER Pe-ru-n Tablets. For two years Dr. Hartroan and his assistants have labored Incessantly to create Peruna In tablet form, ana their strenuous efforts have lust been crowned with success. People who ob- Ject to liquid medicines can now secure 'eruna tablets. These tablets represent the medicinal Ingredients of Peruna, and each tablet la equivalent to one average dose. Mrs. Josephine Hoist, lit XL First Bt, Portland. Ore., Vice-President of North ern Star, writes that she was troubled seriously with catarrh of the throat, and had neglected It until It had become chronic. Peruna was called to her at tention. Bhe began using It and was wonderfully helped In two weeks, and In a little over two months Peruna had successfully rid bar system of all traces of catarrh. Head and Throat. Miss Helen fiauerbler, $11 Mln St, pi josepn, wen writes: "Last winter I can ght a sudden eold which developed Into an unpleasant ca tarrh of the head and throat, depriving me of my appetite and usual good spirits. a rnend wne nad been cured by Peruna advised me to try it and I sent ror a ootue at once, and I am glad to aay that in three davs the phlegm had loosened, and I felt better, my appetite returned and within nine daye I wae In my uauaj geoa neaiin," Rer. John Roach Straton, winner Grand; total-S, Yi . . . . . . . . $6,000 nJ .Ul. Innlilillnff hundreds of tourists, took It up, and of f 1,9 99 prize ror article on ure- nmeaiaieiy oegaa i - gon. th atata of Oresron Immediately begi ' K hMnt fmm all over the country. Commercial bodies and v advertising elubs discussed the scheme on its ad- v.rililn, marlta. Committees and con ventlona talked about It railroad pas senger agents an over tno counvry helped advertise It, and trade papers ,WraTot rnteWed' ESTZX abouT It the amount of verti.lng received that The union Paclflo system pusnea u ana club's offer has been overwhelming. In my opinion It was the greatest prise writing contest ever carried on by a commercial body in the united states. Its value to Oregon is immense. It can not be estimated In dollars, ao vast was tha Northern Pacific boosted It. me araat Northern helped It along, more than 20 columns being printed In the preliminary campaign In Minnesota and North lakO ta papera upu. . v , --, .. ill AdTertUlng Benaflt. All the , big . cities "beard of It h.,.rti t'n.lr nurari. Including Bt Paul. Minneapolis, - ymana, """i'lL.'T".", New ion, Bt. ixiuiB, rmmueipnw, inen 1 Baltimore, i Duluth and others. ojinnnt ha nut on record. Thousands of newspapers puDiisnea club's offer. More than 400.000 leaflets containing the offer were circulated by the Commercial club. Every part or the united states is renresented ambnor tha nrlze winners. The report of the Judges follows: - Seaport of Committee. "Thomas Richardson, manager Com mercial club: , . "Your committee, appointed oy Gov ernor George E. Chamberlain to decide men. No one of us has slighted the work and contestants can rest assured that no snap Judgment was taken of their work. Trusting that the findings of the committee will please the club and sat- isrv the contestants, we are. reaneot fully, "JAMES F. EWINO, ! "W. J. CUDDY." Winners of the Trtses. The comnlete list of Diice-wlnnera ioiiovi: John Roach Straton. D. D. Btev- ent Baptist Churcn. Baltimore, Maryland, (Baltimore Ameri can. November 24. 1807) 11.000 hiss Maieei nowe, ss h mxteentn street, Portland, Oregon (Atchi son Weeklv Globe December fi. 1007) ,. SOO - - " - - - - - - - u. u. unapman, cnapman Avertin- ing company. Commonwealth building, Portland, Oregon (Sun set Aurust 1907) SS0 Albert Phenls (Manufacturers' Record. Auarust 29. 1907) 00 Miss Anna Shannon Monroe, Ham ilton Duuaing, Portland, ure gon (Spare Moments, Decem ber. 1907)... 17K ueorge a. layman, Amnoy, iuinoia (Amboy Journal, Nocember 21, 1007) 160 Byron E. Cooney, Butte, Montana, (Butte Evening News, Decem ber II, 1907) 125 R. M. Hall, Portland, Oregon (Fruit Grower, St. Joseph, Mis souri, October, 1907) 110 Mary Kouncelor Brooks, Fort Worth. Tcxaa fFnrt Worth Ran. ord, December 16, 22, 29, 1907). 10J Horace Stevens, 686 Montgomery street Portland, Oregon (Sac ramento Bee. December 11. 1907) 0 Tea Prises of $75 Sack, (Des Molhes Register and Leader, May 12, 1907.) Charles I. Rice, box II, Station "A,' Worcester, Massachusetts. (Worcester Sunday Telegram. December 19. 1907.) H. S. Prescott Grants Pasa, Oregon. (Waterloo, lows, uauy courier, ueoem ber 28. 1907.) George W. Crosley, 120 South Seventh street, Terre Haute, Indiana. (Terrs Haute Star, December 21, 1907. Terre .Haute, Indiana.) C. B. Watson, Ashland, Oregon. (Chi' caro Inter Ocean. December 29. 1907.) Mildred & McFaden, St. Louis. Mis souri. (American woman a neview, December. 1907.) T. J. Fording, 671 Hawthorne Terrace, Portland, Oregon. (Alliance Daily Re view, December i. 1907. Alliance, unio.; J. N. Davis. 8(1 Hawthorne avenue. Portland, Oregon. (Lawrence Journal, December 28, 1907. Lawrence, Kansas.) M. I. Gellaty, Philomath, Oregon, (Breeders' Gazette, August 21, 1907. Chicago, Illinois.) Mlns Josephine Richardson, $95 Six teenth street south, Portland, Oregon. (Fort Worth Record, December 10, 1907. Fort Worth, Texas.) Ten Prises of f9S Saofc. Mary K. Bullitt Lexington. Kentucky. (Lexington Leader, December 29, 1907.) Helen M. Packard, Belfast Maine. (Belfast. Maine. Republican Journal December 6, 1907.) General Thomas M. Anderson, Van couver, Washington. (Columbus, Ohio, Press-Post. December 22. 1907.) 1 Louise A. Nash, 648 Belmont street Portland, Oregon. (Woman's Work, Juiy, i07. Athens. Georgia.) Captain O. C. Applegate. Klamath Falls, Oregon. (San Jose Mercury, De cern Der su. IVV 1. 1 T. T. Geer, Pendleton, Oregon. (In- Wet and Slippery. -pavement make aooldewts te bereee frequent. Far Outs, Bruises, Oalle A Strains) try Mexican Mustang LMmenL Heeaka down te the bene, relieves all aersnese la Jiffy then beale the wound er tarn llgamenta. He great aatl eeptle cnjolftlca make It aafe and sera. v v -v , Equally good for Haa or Beast Oar FREB booklet, u Pouts Irom Hone Doetor'e Diary" wUl hclpyon la enring your livestock. Seadforis. LTON MAKCFACTUBIKO CO, 44 South Fifth Bt, BaooxxTX,M.T. maanor A Morrow S287 rllrnrn lanapons. inaiana, Bunaay star, De- venue. Allerhenv Pennavlvanla ( Pitta. I cemDer ii, 1907.) . i ' aAa,aa.atana naMAilHtaia coStalnlng prUeaeVklha narUcles about the prize contest for the best auatalned Oregon began to. come In at tho offices storfes of Portland and vicinity, btg of the Portland commercial ciuo. i "p", ...... . . . , -vii.tinn nut awav in a I "That in all about 340 contestants H'ety-depolt vault and carefully kept submitted articles and the total num- for the aay wnen inm juages wvuia i vi. " i, " lieHn to grind. ' s Iperlodlcals In which stories appeared The contest closed the last day of will reacn aDout 400. xne newspapers 1907 but s long afterward bunohes of used as vehicles for the stories are pub Ttdta rontesUnc articles continued to llcations Issued In every state of the arrive many of tbem having been held union and in many of the prominent vr inn late bv the oubllcatlons that cities of the country. Articles sub- - - - . - . . . . 1 1 . . . . ... j tmri baan exnected to nrlnt them. About six weeks ago the governor of E-Sood's Oarsaparilla VurlZet and enrichea the 'blood' and build) 07 the whole rystem. 'ar ,. It radically enrea all blood diseaaes, ' from pimples to ecrofala. , , v .. It li the best remedy for catarrh, rheumatism and dyspepsia. ' - At all timet of the year It Is the rnoat widely useful medicine. ' TlrFe etatementa are confirmed daDy ly cuwd men and women. Over 0,000 testimonials received In U a year aa uneqaaled record 1 la t.lV'fi. as well aa In usual nnA . 3 rcscs Vat Dollar. v . , mltted and accepted have been pub lished In several foreign newspapers, noticeably In Great Britain, Canada and Mexico. The contest was far-reaching In Us good results and not only were the articles forming the bulk of the cor respondence published in the news papers to which they were submitted by contestants, but the clipping bureaus show that they wero extensively copied and commented upon in Hundreds entered as of compet- pu itlve' naoers. . "As an advertising medium no better method could have been adopted. When the returns ahall have been checked up the results will undoubtedly show that Portland and Oregon have been bene fited to tha extent of thousands upon thousands - of dollars. Roughly esti- . 4h. 1 Atmnt a AvrafU nl n tr vain n f the articles entered In the contest would have cost about $26,000. Just how much more of advertising value coula be totaled-from Indirect results will nrobably be ; beter : calculated ' later in the season. ; . "icvarv article entered in the contest wae given tne most careiui consiaera tinrt. Each member-,' of. the committee passed on tha stones and in many cases there were . two and three readings of one article. ,- - - vK; A deal of time has been consumed In arriving at conclusions aa to prises, but this could not be avoided as the rending and rereadinc of approximately 800.000 words of cony had to be done at odd hours, aa all of 'your committee are' bus i a' burg Gasette-Tlmea, December 1, 1907.) u. ix. MUiara, supervisor or gram- lo Times, Pittsburg Gazette, Washing ton i'obl; I. D. Lee, 20 East Fifteenth street north. Portland. Oregon (Omaha Ex amlner. December 21. 1907.) Frank Davey, Burns, Oregon (Blue isartn. Minnesota post, uctooer 2i. io.; 1 , E. W. Wright of Oregonlan. Portland. uregon (tsunset, August, psur.j Thomas C... Merry, Los Angel Ifornia (Xj Angelas Meralf. per Z9. mvi.i , ,1 . Maud Hoffman. 4 Clifford street West London,' England (Baltfmo.-o American, December 27, 1907; Weekly Edinburgh Scotsman, , . November 30, 1907.) Catherine Hartman. Bostonla, Cali fornia (Buffalo Sunday News, Decern ber 22. 1907.) James Myers, ChehalU, Washington (Weekly Wymorean, Wymore, Nebras ka, December 6. 26, 1907.) C. M. Hyskell, care Journal, Port land, Oregon (Sunset August 1907.) Tea Prizes of 860 Xsch. Mary L. Harkness. Fairfield. Iowa. H. E. Crain. 329 Mill street. Portland. Oregon. (Logansnort Indiana. Daily Tribune, December Z7, 1907.) Juliet McClure-Marohn, 201 Summit avenue. Lead. South Dakota. (Lead Daily Tribune, June Z5, isos.) "Empire." (Dawson County Review, December 27, 1907. Glendlve. Montana.) ; Rev. J. A. P. McDaw. 811 Clackamas street Portland, Oregon. (Fort Wayne, inaiana, sentinel. Decern Der zb, 1907.) 80 Prizes of $15 Each. C. E. Land is. 1880 Green street. Har. rlsburg. Pennsylvania. (Harrlsburg Tele- crraDh. Decemoer o. lvon. 'Mount Hood," Buue, Montana, (Butte 1908.) Central school, (Anaconda Stand- We Sell Miner. December 81, Margaret Hughes. Anaconda, Montana. ard, June , iue.) w. R. cook. Hastings, Micnigan. (Hastings Banner. November 14. 21. 1907.) E. b. Paries, "box 17, naron, Wiscon sin. (Sharon Recorder, August 29, 1907! September 6, 1907.) p. u. Brennan. "ori uervis, isew York. (Evening Gazette, November 29, 1907.) v Mrs. -Elsie Reed scnemp, fair urouncis, Oregon. (Chattanooga News, December 28, 1907.) Miss Susie Clark, Z56 South Marengo avenue, Pasadena, caiirornia. (Pasa dena Dally News, December .28, 1907.) W. M. Barber. Dents, Oregon. (Jef ferson City, Missouri. Tribune, Decem ber 20, 1907.) , W. , bmitn, Meaiora, uregon. (Snrlngfleld, Ohio, Daily News, Decem ber 80, 1907.) - . ' . .... J. F. Nowiin. zoy auskv ounaing, Portland. Oregon. (Aopleton, Wiscon sin. Press, December 26, 1907.) Bernlce Aimgren, Mcpnflrson, Kansas. (McPherson. Kansas, Freeman, Decem ber 27, 1907.) ' F. n. DeForest.' S5 Halght street. San Francisco, California. (Boonevllle. Mrs. Louise Humphrey Smith. 180$ Euclid avenue, Berkeley. California. (San LUls Obtsno Telesram. Daeemhar su, x-jvi, ean duis uoispo. California.) Twenty Prises of $10 Each. Frances E. Mader. 108 South Lafayette jireei, urana itapias, Michigan. (Grand cvaui9 neraiu, April 22, 1VU8.) John C. McNulty, branch United States hydrographlo office, Portland, Oregon. (Clarkson Bulletin, October. Eva Rrman-Gallard. Gerard. Wannavl, Vania. (Gerard. Pennsylvania. TTaraM December 19, 1807.) . wvT- Ev,an"' The Dalles. Oregon. (Oklahoma State Register, December is, ivi. vruinne, UKianoma.) E. N. Conter, 1179 Rokeby street Chi. cago. Illinois. (Chicago Rnmln.r ru. Miss Elizabeth Bennett Hutchinson, Kansas. (Hutchinson Dailv Nan rw. cember 29, 1907.) Irene Carter. Mllwaukie, Oregon, R, F- rk- (Malbern, Iowa, Leader, Septem ber 28, 1907.) Roee Tromer ' Sunnwala r.llfiw.1. (Sunnyvale Standard. nucmih,, 1907.) , " A. J. Hathawav. hn 1 AA vrr.XTirn,.iii Oregon. (Ottawa Weekly Democrat! illifeiSiiiii One of the linest Stocks in Portland ;v. - , : Welcome 1 : . r -1 ' ,,v ,. -,' -5 T7111 opon par for ono of thooo flno ulta No trouble to show the goods Yamhill Street ; First arid Second September 28, 1907. Ottawa, Iowa.) - Verglef E. ; Roe, Corvallis, Oregon, or Cresswelt. " Oregon. (Oklahoma State Capital, September tt. 1907. Guthrie, Oklahoma.) ''--. - ' r , - -, Aidison sennet, imgon. Oregon. (Bradford Dally - Record.- December 19. 1907. Bradford, Pennsylvania. ) Harriet Warner Cbapln, 191 - Union Street, Flushing, New York. , Crushing Daily Tlmea., November. 1907; Honey coye . .Dally Times, November, I907i North Shore Leader, November, 1907.) Makvlna O. Bchawen, Pomeroy, Waih- ( Continued on Page Three.) on the positive guarantee; that if it dOeS nOt give SatiS I Indiana, .Standard, December 29, 1907.) fcwVwwfc 6ww j x W. 'Hum. Beatrice, Nebraska. faction we will return the- j (Beatrice Daly ? Express, December , o-il-. MMt a i H. W. Toung, loaepenoence. , Kansas. cuuiwuuuuiu v luuucjr yaMi i (independence Times, jxovemoer i, US IOr it. We mean thiS I W. H. H- Judson, Bessemer, Alabama. t . i .r I (Bessemer weeiuy, BepiemDer..".; anf eetr o 1 4-tine a tirhn ova, I Archibald A. Schenck. 1208 Farnum sick and need strength to try it with this understanding.4 i - . . . i . iter. f a. ' 'A iitiiuiavu. - ' 1 1 gem' (Bayfleld County Press, December WOOOard, Uarka ct CO, Portland, Of. 1 17, .1807 BayfleW, .Wisconsin. treet Omaha. Nebraska. (Omaha Bee. October 20. 1907.) . . r. S..- L.''8traube.' 206 Santa Fe street A rMean tnnfl. l Kansas ;C, Post nor lr. J inviuyevui wohwvvwi vv Grand Circle Women of Woodcraft ' Offtc of GRAND CLERK ' PORTLAND, April 7, 19 08. ' Mr. H. E. Stemler, Mgr.. . ; L, it M. Alexander ,& Co, I Portland,. Oregon. . . Dear,; Sir i f:':'isfy -t wtStp. ' ;': , Replying to your request tor a testimonial-letter, we are people of few words. We are using thirteen type writers in our offioes, twelve of which are L. C, ,: . SMITHS. If we can do , you any good, try us. ' Respectfully yours, J ' i" Ja Ila WRIGHT Grand Clerk,
