Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-03
PRIZES AGGREGATE $3.50
The Bee Will Give These in Book
lovers Contest
START TO BE MADE WEDNESDAY
Automobile worth $4,000 Listed ~
Reward for First winner OF Pie
ture Solving During Seven
ty-Five-Day session.

ty-Five-Day session.
with the coming Of spring the world |
opens up with games Of all sorts and the
American people lend their efforts and
their time to getting recreation out OF
sports that ease the mind, increase the
strength and better the health. Indeed,
right now is the time for base ball, the
great game OF this continent, and thou
sands Of athletic men will participate in
this sport for five or six months, while
millions root from the stands.
The Bee now announces the beginning OF
a game that all can play-young as well
as old-a game that will be as interesting
as any that has been witnessed In Omaha
for years and years. All are invited TO
take part in this game, which will run Tor
more than two months, with daily change
of features, The Booklovers' contest Is
The Bees new game, and there VIII De
prizes for the winners-for many winners
There will be prizes Of the kind that Will
endure for years-for lifetime. All Omaha
and the west will take part in this new
game. and will enjoy It as much as the
young lad delights in base ball.
This contest-thls game-will be started
in the morning Bee of Wednesday, April
5. when the initial picture in the contest
will be published. Each morning for
seventy-fve days a new picture will be
printed, representing some well-known
book. It will fall upon the readers OF
this paper TO tell what book is represented
by the illustration.
Thirty-Nine Prizes In All.
For the naming Of these books four main
prizes and thirty-five cash consolation
awards will be made, as follows
First Prtze-An Apperson, model four
thirty. touring car, value $1,000
Second Prize-A $50 Kimball Lightweight
note player-piano.
Third Prize-A building lot, 5OxlSO, in
A. p. Turkey Sons Her addition, value
$500.
Fourth Prlze-A Columbia Regent
Grafonola, value 500, and $50 worth Of
latest records.
Five prizes Of $40 in gold. -
Ten prizes Of s. in gold
Twenty prizes of 81 each
In today's issue Of The Bee, page II, Of
the fashion section, will be found illustra-
lions of the four main prizes and details
regarding the contest Each day The Bee
will publish details regarding this interest
ing game and will serve to keep partici-
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All persons with the exception of en-
ployes OF The Bee and members Of their
families who reside in the following terri
tory are eligible to this contest: Nebraska
that portion of Iowa west Of but not in
GLIDING Des Moines; that section of South
Dakota known as the Black Hills district
and wyoming.
| No money and no subscriptions are re-
quired OF contestants. All that is asked Is
that the coupon, which will appear daily
under the book picture, be cut out and
filled in with name and address Of con
testant and with title Of book and name
of author.
Contest for seventy-Five Days.
Each day for seventy five days these pic
lures will be published. but none Of then
must be sent into the Booklovers' Confess
Editor of The Bee until all have been pub
lished. Then each contestant may send IL
no more than five answers to each illus
tration- No more than one answer shoulS
be placed on each coupon. 1t is not neces
sary that printed coupons be used. Tn.
answers may be mailed into the edito
any legible manner
Incorrect answers will not count agains
contestants II correct answers are given
Prizes will be awarded TO the contestant
sending in the largest number OF correc
, solutions. II Is desirable that pictures b
mailed with coupons. All answers TO tn
same number should be kept together. !
is important that name and address b
; neatly and plainly written. This precautio
will permit the contest board TO read tn
answers more readily.
! In the event of two or more person
: having the same number OF correct solu
r lions, the person using the smaller numbe
4 OF extra coupons in his set OF answers wi
4 be declared the winner In event of tw
' or more persons having the same numbe
a of correct answers and using the sam
number OF coupons the person whose 81
q of answers lie most neatly prepared, in tn
n opinion OF the contest board, will receiy
n the first prize
One List by Contestant.
Only one list OF coupons may be sui
mitted by a contestant The use OF II
coupon is not obligatory upon the col
testants, and an answer may be submitts
in any uniform manner the participant
may select Awards will be made strict
according to the merit OF each list II
name OF more than one person must not
I written upon any one coupon. The awar,
will be made by the contest editor and
committee OF well known Omaha citizen
whose names will be announced later.
1t is true that some OF the pictures W
. be puzzlers. and some OF them probRb
$ will suggest more than one book to Il
; mind of the contestant. But each one W
u represent only one book, and the name
is this book win be known TO only one man
a the contest editor. Two or three days b
10 fore the picture IL published in The b
n the editor will have the name Of the DO,
placed on the picture and then send IN
n Illustration, enclosed in a sealed envelOp
ID local bank, where IL will be kept un
re the contest closes and the board is real
TO make awards. There will be no wa
then. for anyone but the contest editor
c. learn the name OF the books. The edit
ir win suggest the names for the books, b
al even these will not be known to the art
ID who draws the pictures.
AZ An Ideal Plan for Contest.
ne The fact that no coupons must be &c
II in until the seventy-five days have pass
AT offers an arrangement which viii be
IN good one for the contestants, for It v