The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-03
Mrs. Palmer Will Get a
$685. Auto; Thousands
Competed i'm the Big
gest Project of Its Kind
Ever Arranged by a
Western Newspaper;
Complete Details Ap-
pear Below.

By guessing seventy three titles out
Of possible seventy-seven, Mrs. A.
Lincoln Palmer of SIG East First South
street, wins the 1885 Studebaker tour
ing car, first prize In The Tribune s
| Booklovers' Contest. The four pictures
that stumped Mrs. Palmer were No. 81,
"Crooked and Straight; No. 90, "The
One Woman" No 73, 'The Man in
Black" and No. rs, "For Woman. I"
For the first forty pictures Mrs. Palmer
used 134 answers and for the remaining
thirty seven, 222, total of $50.
E. L. McClain, who came second,
missed out on picture No. so, ''The
Faithful Son." and No. II, Feminine
Finance" /" Mr.. McClain g misses were On
pictures Nos. 81, 50, SO, 76, and II. The
total number Of answers used by Mr..
Mccain was 245, of which 1o4 were
used on the first forty.
R. H. Heriot was third because he
used 315, which was seventy-two more
than were used by Mr.. McClain, both
guessing seventytwo correctly. Mr..
Heriot failed to guess Nos. 81, SO, 73,
76 and TT. No. 78 was sThe Man in
Black -
Clifford A. Routzahn submitted to-
tai of 339 answers to get seventy-two
correct, so fell twentyfour short OF Mr..
Heriot. Mr.. Routzahn missed pictures
Nos. 81, SO, 7a, 76 and IT, the very
same pictures which Btumped Mr.. Her
lot.
Fifth prize went to Bonanza, Custer
county, Idaho, Frank 81. Oster guessing
seventy two with $40 answers, just one
more than used by Mr.. Routzahn. The
former failed to guess Nos. 52, 81, SO,
SO and 76, picture No. So being "Back-
ward Children"
Mrs. Ferne Leonard had u correct with
422 answers, missing pictures Nos. 81, 81:
60. T3 and rs. and Mrs. r. Forester had
the same number right with 46o guesses,
IT. Picture No. 81 was Home"
Mrs Palmer and husband conduct a
grocery store at SIS East First South;
as a peddler; R H. Heriot Is with
the Fire UnderwrIters' Inspection Bureau
and Clifford A. RoutZahn IS listed as a
In the employ OF the Oregon
Short Line
A great many contestants found smooth
sailing clear down to picture b. evident
w. backward Children" was the correct
title to this. but those who missed were
content TO submit School Days" KNOW
ing and Teaching the Scholar" and "The
youngest Girl In School,
Picture 81 was a stumbling block Tor
majority Of contestants, who failed TO
notice the contrast between the long, rig
dIy straight path, edged by gnarly
;lumps of bushes and bent trees. Crooked
md Straight" was guessed by the thor
,urhly observant participants.
"The Faithful Son. picture 6s. was
guessed by large number. Many. how
,yer put down Her Only Son" and sim
lar titles. but forgot. or overlooked, the
correct title.
An odd fes ture was the apparent ease
With which some guessed the really diff
ult pictures and yet missed the SEEM
ngly simple ones. As many people 'fell
own" upon picture II, "Not Quite Eight
en-" with its II sss plus, as upon So.
I, So or the other stickers. There was
tip in the very position of the first
amed picture, as 1t was No. IL. not
uite Is.
.'The Servant in the House." No. 10.
roved easy for nearly ALL and Home
York. the tile for the similar picture,
70. 6S. did not trip up many. No. 3S,
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