Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1904-05-27
FORTUNES FOR
OUR READERS!
A CHANCE FOR you TO MAKE
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Through the Exercise Of sknl-An In
teresting and Educating Departure
Whereby We Give our Readers
an Opportunity to share in
$4,000 Prize Distribution
The publisher of the .PREss has
arranged for the announcement in
its columns Of an exciting, interest
ing, and profitable contest, wherein,
by the display OF skill, some of its
readers can become rich men and
women.
The PREss, always aiming to keep
abreast of the times, endeavors to
give its readers the latest local news,
and whenever it is possible to make
the paper more interesting in other
ways.
Through our Chicago representa-
tive we have arranged for the an
nounoement Of the Lion Coffee
Contest, which appears in this issue
in which details are given of how
$50, 900 will be awarded to the pub
lie, and those readers of the PRESS
that display the necessary amount
of pains, patience, research, and
skill mag be made rich men and
women.
How s5O,OOO Is to BE Given Away
The Lion Coffee people will give
the readers of the PRESS and the
public one or more votes in their
contest, on mailing to them FIVE
lion heads taken from the Lion
Coffee packages and a 2 cent stamp
for each vote. There are two con.
tests--one being based on the at-
tendance July next at tile World s
Fair, st. Louis, in which $4,000 is
to be awarded the second contest
is based on the popular vote for
President (ail candidates comblned)
to be cast on Nov. 8 hext. On this
contest 800, 900 will be awarded, and
in addition to this, a capital prize of
$4,000 will be given to the one who
is nearest correct on both contests
This makes $45, 900, the other SIS, 900
being reserved for the grocers'
clerks that sell most Lion Coffee.
Milford Must win This Money
Some of this money has got to
come into Milford. In the 4,279
cash prizes to be awarded there are
$4,000, $4,000, 81, 600 aud $500 prizes
and the Press would like to feel
that it had been the cause of some
one getting this money.
In order that our readers may
. have some information for estimat-
. ing, we will compare the St. Louis
/. Worlds Fair with Chicago.
: The Chicago fair, which opened
. the same day of the year as St.
. Louis-April 3O-had as an opening
/. days attendance 1877, ,557. st. Louis
on its opening day had 178, 423. This
ought to have some bearing to show
. that st. Louis Will draw larger
:. crowds day by day than did Chicago,
. The July attendance at the Chi
cago Worlds Fair was 2S3, 273, and
. it ls up to you to estimate what the
. attendance on the same day will be
. at st. Louis, although we remind
you to consider the financial condi-
tions of 1898 and those of 1904.
. Eli hteen hundred and ninety
+ three was a panic year. In 1901
. every one has money. People are
going to st. Louis who could not
afford to go to the Chicago fair.
Railroad rates were never lower ;
transportation facilities never better
:. farmers are prosperous, the whole
world is awake to the wonders of
the greatest of worlds fairs, and
the result will be a wonderfully
l. large increase in the attendance on
July at st. Louis over the corre-
spending day at Chicago. Bad
weather on that exact date is the
only thing that can bring the at
tendance down to a lower number.
How the Presidential Vote Runs
The contest for popular vote for
President at tho national election,
/ which takes place on Nov. next,
. gives Press readers a second oppor-
tunity to gather in a goodly lot Of
. the Lion Coffee shekels, while the
. one who is nearest in both the
Worlds Fair and the Presidential
Z contests will receive the grand
special premium of S., 900 cash.
e The meaning Of the term "popu-
lar vote is the total number of
voters who cast their ballots for all
{ candidates. In other words, it is
the sum total Of the Democratic,
! Republican, Prohibition, Socialist,
Labor, and all other ballots cast for
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