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SEVERAL HUNDRED DOLLARS IN PRIZES
To. Be Distributed In A
PIANO CONTEST
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By The Falls City News and Falls City Merchants.
Several of the Merchants of Falls
City have contributed
The Capital Prize
Which will be give by
VALUABLE
PRIZES
The Falls City NEWS
will be an elegant
$ 400.00
and will give
Local Vote Coupons
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Obermeyer & Sons
PIANO
With
each
$1.00 Cash
Purchase
FIR S T PRIZE
Rules and Regulations Governing the Contest are as Follows!
A N N O U N C E M E N T — This Piano and Popular Voting Contest will be
conducted fairly and honestly on business principles, strictly
with justice and fairness to all concerned. With the above
principles, it will be an assured success.
P R I Z E S — The Capital prize will be an Obermeyer & Sons’ Piano.
Also other valuable prizes to the amount of many dollars which
are announced herewith.
C A N D I D A T E S — Young ladies in this and adjoining towns are elig
ible to enter this contest, and the party receiving the largest
number of votes will receive the beautiful $400 Obermeyer &
Sons' Piano, and other premiums will be distributed in accord
ance with the contestants’ standing at the final count.
TI E IN V O T E — Should any of the contestants tie in votes for any
of the prizes, a similar prize will be awarded.
V O TE S C L A S S E D Votes will be issued in the following denomin
ations:
New subscribers, 600 votes......................... ................... $ 1.00
Renewals, 500 votes.......................... ........
................ 1.00
Renewals, more than one year, 600 votes ..................... 1.00
Back subscriptions, 400 vote3............ ............................ 1.00
5 years New or Renewal Subscriptions, 5000 votes........ 5.00
10 years New or Renewal Subscriptions, 12500 votes...... 10.00
20 years New or Renewal Subscriptions, 30,000 votes .. 20.00
I N S T R U C T I O N S -Results to standing votes will be issued after
30 days. No votes accepted at less than regular price of paper
concerned in this contest. No one connected with this paper,
or belonging to the immediate families of the merchants co
operating, will be allowed to become a candidate in this contest
or work for contestants.
Votes, after being voted, cannot be transferred to another.
Be sure to know for whom you are going to vote l>efore coming
to the ballot box, as the editor or anvone else will not give you
any information on the subject. The key to the ballot box will
be in possession of the awarding committee during the contest.
For the first thirty days the paper will run a 25-vote couikhi ,
which can be voted free for any lady contestant.
Contest to run about 90 days. CONTEST WILL CLOSE
APRIL l3t, 1916. The right to postpone date of closing is re
served if sufficient cause should occur.
Ten days prior to closing contest, the judges will carefully
lock or seal ballot box and take same to the bank, where the
same will be in a place where voting can be done duling busi
ness hours and locked in a vault at night until close of contest,
when the judges will take charge and countsame and announce
the young ladies winning in their turn.
The last ten days all voting must be done in a sealed box
at the bank. If you do not wish anyone to know for whom
you are voting, place your cash for subscription together with
your coupon in a sealed envelope, which will be furnished you,
and put same in ballot box. This will give every One a square
deal.
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