The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-10-18
INTERESTING CONTEST Heavy Cost of Unpaid Postage.

One of the most curious contests ever before the public was conducted by many thousand persons under the offer ofsthe Postum Cereal O., Ltd, of Bat tie Creek Mich, for prizes of S1 boxes of gold and 300 greenbacks to those making the most words out of the let ters Y-I-O-Grape Nuts.
 The contest was started in February, 1906 and it was arranged to have the prizes awarded on Apr. 30, 1906.
 When the public announcement ap- peared many persons began to form the words from these letters, some times the whole family being occupied evenings, a combination of amusement and education.
 After a while the lists began to come in to the Postom Office and before long the volume grew until iL tired wa- gons to carry the mail Many of the contestants were thoughtless enough to send their lists with insufficient pos- tage and for a. period it cost the Com pany from twenty-five to fifty-eight and sixty dollars day to pay the un- paid postage.
 Young. ladies, generally those who had graduated from the high school, were employed to examine these lists and count the correct words. Webster S Dictionary was the standard and each list was very carefully corrected except these which fell below 5000 for it soon became clear that nothing below that could win. Some of the lists required the work of a young lady for solid week on each individual list. The work was done very carefully and accurately but the Company had no idea, at the time the offer was made, that the peo- ple would respond so generally and they were compelled to fill every avail able space in the offices with these young lady examiners, and notwith- standing they worked steadily it was impossible to complete the examina- tion until Sept. 29, over six months af- ter the prizes should have been award ed
 This delay caused a great many in- quiries and naturally created some dis satisfaction. It has been thought best to make this report in practically all of the newspapers in the United States and many of the magazines ir order to make clear to the people the conditions of the contest.
 Many lists contained enormous num- bers of words which, under the rules had to be eliminated "Pegger' would count "Peggers" would not. Some lists contained over 50000 words, the grea majority of which were cut out Int largest lists were checked over two and in some cases, three times to in lure accuracy
 The $100.00 gold prize was won by L D. Reese, 1227 18th St, Denver, Colo. with 9941 correct words. The highes $10.00 gold prize went to $, K. Fraser Lincoln, Pa, with 1921 correct words.
 complete list of the 331 winners with their home addresses will be sen to any contestant enquiring on a pos tai card.
 Be sure and give name and addres clearly.
 This contest has cost the Co. man! thousand dollars, and probably has no been a profitable advertisement, never theless perhaps some who had neVe before tried Grape Nuts food have beer interested in the contest, and iron trial of the food have been shown it wonderful rebuilding powers,
 It teaches in a practical manner tha scientifically gathered food clement can be selected from the field grains which nature will use for rebuilding the nerve centres and brain in q wa, that is unmistakable to users of Grape Nuts.
 There's 8 reason"