Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-06
$50 IN CASH PRIZES.
New and Novel Plan to Test
Courier Advertising.
TO LAST FOR TEN DAYS

CONTEST TO LAST FOR TEN DAYS
Readers of the Courier have an oppor-
tunity to Win Big Cash Prize
Without Any Trouble or Expense
Details of the Plan.
AS stated in Yesterdays Courier, a
novel plan has been arranged to make
the December advertising of the Cou-
Frier more than ever profitable to the
merchants of Ottumwa, and at the
same time provide the thousands Of
readers of the Courier with an oppor-
tunity to make a handsome sum be-
sides. 5t}
The Courier will distribute $50 in
prizes to it's readers, this amount to be
divided into three parts, as follows:
First prize-$25.
Second prize-S15.
Third prize-$le!
The prizes viii be given to the sub.
lscribers of the Courier who hand in to
this office on December 26, the largest
number of Courier coupons received
from the merchants of Ottumwa who
use the Courier's advertising columns.
These coupons will be placed in every
store in Ottumwa which advertises in
the Courier and will be given free to
all those who buy goods at any of
these stores that have been advertised
in the Courier, and ask for such cou-
pons.
The coupons will be given in this
manner: Suppose you read the adver.
tlsement of your dry goods merchant
and see therein advertised handker-
chiefs and kld gloves which you want.
On applying at the store and calling
for these kid gloves, saying you saw
| them advertised in the Courier, you
will receive a Courier coupon, as you
will also at the handkerchief counter,
or any other department of any store
of which you buy goods advertised in
the Courier. These coupons are to be
saved and lie one handing in to this
office on December 26 the largest
number of these coupons, will receive
the first prize of $25; the second larg.
est number the second prize of SIS
md the third largest number the third
prize of $40.
These coupons will be placed in
nearly every store in Ottumwa, and
will be given to each purchaser only
when calling for them and stating
that the goods bought were seen adj
vertised in the Courier. This confess
will open on Saturday, December Is,
and will close Tuesday night, Deem
Der 25. All coupons received during
that time are to be counted.
Rules to Govern Contest.
All coupons are to be exactly alike,
no merchants name to be on them un.
less he wishes to place it there HIM
self. &A,
| Every merchant accepting coupons
W., be given a certain number, and
those left over at the end of the con-
test will be counted back to the Cou-
rier and receipted for.
| A coupon is to be received by the
customer from the merchant for every
article purchased. If dozen differ
ent articles are purchased from your
grocer, such as coffee, sugar, canned
corn, celery, ETC., separate coupon is
to be given for each article. The only
Requirement is that the article pur-
chased by the customer has been ad.
vertised during the time beginning
with the Christmas Shoppers Guide
to be issued on Saturday, December Is
and ending with Christmas night, De-
cember %.
These coupons will be absolutely
free and no merchant will raise the
price of his goods because there is no
| exDanse attached to if whateyer ey.
cept that borne by the Courier.
| Coupons will ne delivered to all
merchants who desire them in plenty
of time before the beginning of the
contest, and more can always be had
on application
| Every endeavor will be made to pre-
vent anyone from collecting coupons
Unfortunately in order to win any
of these prizes, and if it is learned
that anyone hands into the Office an
envelope of such enormous size that it
can reasonably be expected that such
coupons therein have not been obtain
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