The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1904-06-10
FORTUNES FOR
OUR READERS
The Publisher of the COur
Ter Announce


A Chance For you TO Make $1,000 90.
Through our Chicago representa-
tive we have arranged for the an
nouncement OF the Lion Coffee Con-
test which appears elsewhere in this
issue, in which details are given OF
how $50, 900 will be awarded to the
public, and those readers OF the
Courier that display the necessary
amount Of pains, patience research,
and skill may be made rich men
and women.
HOW $4,000 is TO BE GIVEN AWAY.
The Lion Coffee people will give
the readers of the Courier and the
public one or more votes in their
contest, on mailing to them i've
lion heads taken from the Lion COT
fee packages and a two cent stamp
for each vote. There are two con-
ltests-one being based on the atten'
dance July 4 next a. the Worlds
Fair, St. Louis, in which $40, ,0Ol
will be awarded; the second con
test is based on the popular vote
for President (all candidates com
bined) to be cast on Nov.S next
Ion this contest $4,000 will b
awarded, and, in idition TO this
, capital prize Of S., 600 will be givel
to the one who is nearest correct OF
: both contests. This makes s45 900
I the other So 900 being reserved 10
the grocers' clerks that sell mos
Lion Coffee.
JASPER MUST WIN THIS MONEY.
r Sons Of this money has got
: come into ] asper. In the 4,279 cas-
prizes to be awarded there are s.
I-0OO, 81, 500, 81 900, and $500 prize
and the Courier would like to fe'
that it had been the cause OF sou
one getting this money.
% ST. LOUIS OPENING BEATS CHICAGO
In order that our readers may hay
some information for estimating, "
: will compare the st. Louis World
: !, Fair with Chicago.
: The Chicago fair, which opene
the same day of the year as 5
;. .Louis-April S0-had as an openir
! DAYS attendance 1877 ,557. ST., Lou
: on its opening day had l7S, Az
This ought to have some bearing
4 show that St. Louis will draw larg
ddcrowds day by day than did Chic'
l. go. =,
e The July attendance at the Oh
!. cago Worlds Fair was 2SS,2l3, an
il Is up to you to estimate what Il
!, attendance on the same day will
" at st. Louis, although we remir
YOU to consider the financial cond
|, tons Of 1898 and those OF 1904.
= = Eighteen hundred and ninst
!. .three was q panic year. In IN
every one has money. People q
going TO St. Louis who could not
ford to go to the Chicago IA
!. Railroad rates were never lowe
= transportation facilities were nev
!; better; farmers are prosperous, .
:. whole world is awake to the wo
9 ders Of the greatest Of worlds fail
and the result will be a wonderful
Ilarpe increase in the attendance
:, !" July 4 at st. Louis over the CORE
ponding day at Chicago. Bad We
ther on that exact date is the or
:, thing that can bring the attendan
- down TO a lower number.
10 HOW THE PRESIDENTIAL VOTE RUs
d, The contest for popular vote
On President at the national electlc
d. which takes place on Nov. 8 me-
rs gives Courier readers a second Q
he portunity to gather in a goodly
Of the Lion Coffee shekels, while
,s- one who ia nearest in both
a. Worlds Fair and the President
Ter contests will receive the grand 81
re- cisl premium Of 5000 cash.
il The meaning OF the term "poT
ro- lar vote" is the total number OF
refers who cast their ballots for
candidates. In other words, It
the sum total of the Democratic,
'ut publican, Prohibition, Socialist,
OF bor, and all other ballots cast
* President on any and all tickets,
ter Nov. s 1904.
ew AS a guide TO correct guess
we give the official figures OF
nm popular votes for president dur
,be the past five Presidential electio
IL. which were as follows:
\ st 1884. ........ lU,Of4,o =
era 1881. ....... ll'ooo'o