Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-05-22
REAL START MADE TODAY
Bees Ad-Getter Contest Gives Promise
of Being Greatest Race.
NOMINATIONS TO COME RAPIDLY
All People Under n Years Are
Eligible to Enter and Take share
of More Than 1900 in
Free Prize offer.

This Is the first working day of The
Bees Ad-Getter contest, which was started
yesterday. when a full page advertisement
appeared on page eight of the want ad sec
ton. Contestants may be nominated today
and the race will be going fast before
nightfall. II Is to be a great contest and
the early entrants will be at an advantage
in that they will have more time in which
to work for the prizes and the 10 per
cent commission that will be theirs. The
contest will close August 49,
The Bee will give away more than $1,000
in free prizes to the successful contest
ants. Any boy or girl under the age of
p years, who Is nominated Is eligible for
this great contest. Votes for contestants
are secured through bringing paid want
ads into The Bee Want Tad editor. Every
want ad, no matter the size, entities the
person who brings Il TO this office to one
vote in this Ad-Getter contest. II the ad
Is run two times. two votes are credited;
II It runs five times. i've votes are cred
tied. etc
Only Paid Ads Count.
Only paid want ads count in this oon-
test. Ten per cent commission goes with
every ad no matter what the size may be.
Want ads from real estate dealers and
regular business advertisers in The Bee
do not count All ads are subject to in
vestigation and rejection by The Bee.
Only bona fldo ads will be counted. Since
The Bee runs domestic help and situation
ads free all contestants are Obliged TO
take such ads with the same courtesy that
they would show in taking the paid ads.
Domestic help and situation wanted ads
cannot be counted as votes In the contest.
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free for all. The receipt by The Bee Want
Tad editor OF q nominating blank. properly
filled out, constitutes sufficient entry and
counts as ten votes for the candidate.
Only one nominating blank will be counted
for each contestant.
Rate for want Ads.
The rate for Bee want ads IL ~ cents
a word IL the al II run but onCe. II run
two or moro consecutive times the rate
.is-a cent . word. Bring the cash and the
ad TO the Want Tad editor OF The Bee
and you will be credited with vote each
time the ad appears in this paper and
you will be paid commission Of 10 per
cent for your trouble.
The contest is limited to the following
territory; Nebraska, wyoming, Iowa and
South Dakota. People living in other
states, though they are readers OF Inc Bee
are barred from entering the contest.
Now is the time to begin this race. Get
want ads anywhere-at home or down
town. Send in your own want ads or
solicit them from your neighbors. Get
want ads and you will get votes and be
started on the way to take in one Of the
twelve grand prizes.
List OF Grand Prizes.
The first prize is a $3.50 baby grand Lud-
wig piano. The other prizes are: Second
$40 graduation scholarship course in the
Omaha Commercial college; third prize
$40 graduation scholarship course in the
Omaha Commercial college; fourth. ladies
or gentteman's solid gold watch, sold by
T, L. Combs; fifth and sixth prizes, ladies'
tailored suits. value $50 each. sold by the
Novelty Skirt company, 214-21s North Six
teenth street; seventh and eighth prizes
value $50 two National bicycles. sold by
the Omaha Bicycle company. Sixteenth and
Chicago streets; ninth and tenth prizes
value SIS each. two full memberships IN
the Young Women's Christian association
eleventh and twelfth prizes, value $40 each
two full memberships in the Young Mems
Christian association