The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-24
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Immediately above this line the reader
sees three lines of incomplete letters.
words. Only the lower two-fifths Of each
letter appears, the other three-ffths hay-
ing 6een cut Off What are these four
words? They are all taken from this
very advertisement. The words are NOT
separated from each other; but neither
are the incomplete letters mixed up at
all Ihere is no tranSposition or other
trick. Taken one letter right after the
other from the first to the tWenty-thfrd.
rney spell four words. Each word ap-
pears out oace In this advertisement.
Ihey are four distinct and separate
WORDS They appear in different places
In the advertisement, not in sequence,
ana aI no TWO words appear in one line Of
the advertisement.
Inc winning contestants must decide
what are the four words which the let
ters above. If complete. would spell, and
each OF the four words is 1t is a most
interesting contest. There is no chance
ABOUT It 1t requires only ingenuity and
painstaking care in its solution. The
four words may be determined and Iocaf
eo In f1ve minutes, or it may take an
hour or two to decide what they are,
Five Hundred Dollars. Two HIndTeT
Dollars will be paid for the correct So
luton; One Hundred Dollars for thA
nearest correct; Fifty Dollars for the
SECOND nearest correct, and Twenty
rive Dollars each for the next six
nearest correct. IF the prize in anv given
case shall be won by more than one, the
winners r. .@--s ~
All results should be addressed to Brain
contest Editor, The Penny agazine, 489
VIII close Jan. 18th. and the announce
ment of the result will be made in the
TFTehnGru 4 II W. number Of THE PENNY
n MAiGA4 haea. the winners receiving their
prizes before February LIST.
As most people know, THE PENNY
tracAD5AHtNE. IS one of the greatest Sue
cesses Of recent times in the publishing
WorId. Its editor and manager is Thorn
as y Quinn, formerly Of the editorial
StaT OF The Boston Globe and The New
YORK Press. He ts the man who first
ing editor of The Press, in 1889, the now
national idea Of having the American
nag displayed on all public schools and
F THE GP9 EMNY % sYsFy 9ay i, an oil.
brilliant and patriotic magazine, whose
ann Is to give to all the people a publ
est possible price. It's SUBSCRIPTION pTics
is only twenty cents a year for
winch sum it is edited illustrated. print
fT,it pou9 90 ana delivered anywhere in the
cry month for one full year. This pres
e fI1 contest is rinaugurated to; Introduce
LIE LIE PENNY MAGAZINE Into new
homes. Each person entering this con
test In order to be eligible to receive a
prize, MUST. SEND WfTH HIS OR HBR
ANSWER TWENTY GEMS. for one
oOSC1 ApLlO4l TO the magazine, All
comp competitors in this contest may be as
sending answers to this contest, the Writ
ers should name the four words, should
write out In full the line in which each
wore appears and should inelose twenty
cents with the answer to pay for the
SUBSCRIPTION to THE PENNY MAGAo
LINE LINE. necessary to enter the contest.
Ihey should also give the name and ad-
dress of the person for whom the siIb
sscr1ption is intended With these enndI-
uons fulfilled, there is nothing to pre-
vent the winning of the prizes and the
receiving Of the prize money.
Now, who can win one Of the prizes7
what are the four words? Address =,
Brain Contest Editor,