The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-11-08
The Times Is To Give Away Big
Cash Prizes, Automobile,
Piano and Other Articles.
NO SUBSCRIPTION PLAN.
No Obligation, Financial or
Otherwise, Imposed on Par
ticipants in Contest.

lodge use either amounts? Would you
like to help give $1,000 to a charitable
organization, an orphans home. to
your church or your lodge II doing II
required no financial sacrifice what
ever on your part?
Do you want $1,000 automobile?
Have you some friend or relative that
wants one? Would you assist friend
OF relative In acquiring II II you
thought such help from you would in
sure the delivery OF $1,000 car TO
him or her-especially IL this help
from you meant no financial sacrifice?
DO you want a piano? Does your boy
or girl want Shetland pony, with a
cart and harness? Or another one
with a saddle and bride?
This newspaper is TO give away all
these things-is to give away abso-
lutely without cost to you $1,000 in
gold, and many other magnificent and
useful articles aside from the pianos,
the automobile and the ponies men,
tioned--in all. grand list of prizes
valued at $4,000 The Times, in fact
Is to allow you 20 give these prizes
away 10 your church. your lodge to
your relatives and friends or your
I children, the paper TO be merely your
agent in their distribution. The Times
will award the gold and the other
prizes to any organization or to any
individual that has your support In
acquiring them.
Yes, it's true. The Times has $500
In gold ana a long list OF other valua-
bile and useful articles TO give away
for you to give away without cost TO
you. Let IL be understood here that
this newspaper, although II wants you
TO help give these prizes away, does
not seek to enlist you for a subscrip-
ton solicitor. The Times isn't to ask
you TO concern yourself with that kind
OF work-in tact, isn't to ask you to
do any work at ALL You may help
the Times in giving the $4,000 in cash
and other prizes 10 your church or
your personal friends without any
work whatever on your part, and
without any financial aid whatever.
You will not even be asked TO clip
coupons from The Times.
Five thousand dollars to give away
absolutely free No subscription can
vassing, no coupons to clip from any
newspaper no work for you to do.
lust help yourself to the gold and
he other prizes Or help your church,
,our relatives. your neighbors or your
children to take them away from The
Times Office.
Ever hear OF such an offer from any
other Detroit newspaper? or course
you never did before, for this is the
first time a Detroit newspaper has
ever offered to allow its readers and
their friends TO give away such lib
eral amount OF gold-$1 .500-and so
many other valuable and lasting
awards absolutely free. This is the
first time a Detroit newspaper ever
has been able TO cffer its readers such
pleasant task. without asking them
and their friends TO solicit subscrip-
tons or clip coupons. The Times
isn't to ask that of you. The fact that
The Times is to allow you to give
these prizes away free. as 1t is to do,
makes the offer the most remarkable
one ever heard of in Detroit.
You will be interested in giving this
gold to your church. in giving a Shet-
land pony and driving cart TO some
boy or girl--perhaps to your own-in
giving some Of this money to some
charitable home, to make life happier
for homeless or crippled children.
Scores Of your friends will be inter-
ested, too Will you help The Times
give this gold away, to your church
or to some institution which cares
for homeless children, IL this news
paper, In asking you TO help in such
an undertaking. doesn't even ask you
TO leave your own home to do so?
Here is how you can help give away
this gold and the many other valuable
awards:
Elsewhere in this issue of The
Times. announcement is made that
this newspaper Is to give away 81 500
in gold and the other prizes. The an
nouncement tells you how you can
help The Times do this. Read the
announcement The rules governing
the awarding OF the prizes will show
you that all that is TO be asked OF
YOU is that you save the labels from
many of the food products you have
in your house right now for some
church, any one you care to choose;
for some home for crippled children,
or for some boy or girl who wants a
shetland pony. Read in the an
nouncement the list of nationally
known food products the labels of
which will count for votes for some
one who wants them. Look at the
list of stores, too. in the announce
ment and II you have sales slips
rom any OF those stores, save them
FOR some church or for some boy or
girl, for yourself or for some neigh
bor who win want them.
Take that list and hang IL up in
your kitchen. And make up your
mind not to throw any more of those
labels or sales slips into the alley
or the refuse can. Save them. Some
crippled boy or girl will be calling at
your home for them. Or your church
will want them. Some OF your neigh
bors will want them II you do not
IS want them yourself. Let your church
know that you are saving them. Or
see in The Times list Of churches,
lodges, orphans homes and men and
women who will want them. Some
organization or some individual that
/. you are friendly TO will be named in
the lists.
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