Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-01-21
PROvERB CONTEST
WILL INTEREST
STAR READERS
Newark and All New Jersey
Anxious for Opening on
Thursday, January n.
SIMPLE AND EASY RULES
TO GOVERN COMPETITION
Valuable Prizes, Aggregating
Over $4,000, to Be Eager
ly Contested For.

Never before in the history of a New
Jersey newspaper have the public been
offered such a grand opportunity to
participate in such an attractive and
ia scinating competition as the STAR is
going to give.
Thousands and thousands of STAR
readers are preparing to enter the con-
test From the very first announce
| ment there came from all parts of the
city and surrounding vicinity many
hearty comments of delight and sur
prise upon the generosity and liberality
of the STAR in its offer of such
| splendid and costly rewards
As details of the contest follow from
day to day the interest continues to
grow into immense proportions, until,
in fact. all Newark and all New Jersey
is now talking and clamoring for the
opening with picture No |, which will
appear on next Thursday evening, Jan
uary 9th
The contest will, no doubt, prove the
most gigantic ever conducted. In fact
II is SURE to be gigantic.
Considering the great values of the
prizes it could not be otherwise
That every reader of the EVENING
STAR will have an equal chance TO Sc =
| cure one of these prizes is doubly as
sured. Think of it, There are over 40
handsome and costly prizes, and a
round one hundred dollars in ten prizes
of ten dollar gold pieces as an appro-
Epriate finis, totaling fifty-two prizes in
all.
Some one is going to make money
easy. Some one is going to win a
small fortune. Some one MUST win.
Why not you? You can do it il YOU
will only make the effort The proverb
Illustrations win all be easy, and with
the aid of the EVENING STARS book
OF English proverbs. which will con-
tain all of the correct answers, each
and every contestant will be placed
upon a fair and equal footing. In
| other. words, it will all be up TO the
ieo1teetant.
As details of the contest follow from
DAY to day the interest continues to
grow into immense proportions, until,
IN fact, all Newark and all New Jer-
sey is talking. and clamoring for the
opening with picture No. l. which will
appear on next Thursday, January q.
simple and Easy Rules.
! The rules governing the proverb con-
test are extremely simple and easy.
and If readers will read them over care
fully they will know just how best TO
make every stroke in this contest
| count
Ffrst-All contestants, TO be eligible.
must be permanent residents of the
State OF New Jersey. Employees of the
Morning and Evening STAR, together
with members of their families, will
be barred.
Second-A coupon will be published
with eachsproverb illustration, and con,
testants will be required to write their
idea of the proverb each picture
will represent. This coupon will be
one of the essentials that will assist
competitors in welding their power OF
thought in this great "battle of brains.'
Third-Each of the fifty pictures that
will be published will plainly represent
some commonly used and well,known
English proVerb. Where a contestant
is in doubt of proverb he will be
permitted to send in extra answers, but
these additional answers must be upon
separate coupons. Not more than one
hundred and fifty coupons will be al.
lowed in a complete set.
Fourth-A complete set will consist
proverb Illustrations, and no con
testant will be considered in the run
ming unless they send an answer to the
entire series.
Fifth-Incorrect answers will not
count against the contestant provided
the correct answer is also given Only
one answer may be written upon the
same coupon, and contestants must be
0a raf fnI IN n ID.
until the entire series of fifty pictures
have been published.
After the entire series has been pub |
lished, the answers should be arranged
in numerical order, all securely
fastened together, and sent in Qn a
neat fiat package), plainly addressed
to the ProVerb Editor the Newark |
EVENING STAR. The time of mailing |
or depositing the answers will have no |
effect upon the final result with the |
excer 'on that all answers must be re-
ceived at the STAR Office within |
seventy-two hours after the last, or
fiftieth. picture has appeared.
The first prize will be awarded to the
contestant sending in the correct, or
nearest correct. set of answers The /
second prize will go to the person send |
ing in the second nearest correct list, !
and so on. In the event of two or
more persons sending in the same num-
ber of correct solutions the contestant I
whose set of answers is most neatly |
and uniformly prepared. according to
the full judging committee, will be de- |
clared the winner.
All persons who contemplate entering
this great contest should have the
EVENING STAR delivered regularly. |
from now ON. until the close OF the
contest The announcements that are
appearing from day to day will, no
doubt. be of great assistance to readers
in giving them a thorough idea as to |
the character of the proverbs that will
be illustrated
No doubt many of the STAR read
crs have heard a large number of the
proverbs that will be shown. Perhaps
they are in your mind already. or
perhaps YOU have a hazy vision of /.
them, and will need only to search {
through the STARS Proverb Book in
order to arrive at the right ones.
Don't wait another minute, but order
the STAR at once and be ready. /