The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-11-25

On pages A and 5 of this issue of The
Pleasantville Press today will be found the
great educational contest. We know that our
army of readers will welcome it, and will be
very much SURPRISED when they finish reading
this rather long but interesting article.
Every town of any consequence at the
present time is boosting, its own place. The
Pleas antville Press is, and has always been
a booster for home enterprise, and we think
these contests we are just starting will give
the city and its business enterprises the
greatest advertisement she has had for many
a day.
Now, then, to our many readers we desire
to call your attention to the two full pages
of advertisements. Page 4 you will notice,
on the top of the return blank. This blank
when returned must only be used in connec-
ton with this pages missing word. See
rules in center of page.
No. 2. This will also be found embodied on
the return blank. See these rules also.
Thus two full pages of advertisements will
run every Saturday for the next II weeks.
one of the advertisements only the contest
editor has Intentionally omitted one word.
This word begins with S and ends with E.
The word taken out of a certain advertise
ment on page 5, known as contest No. 2, be-
gins with R and ends with R.
The word omitted makes the sentence
dramatically wrong. For instance if we
had a sentence like this in one of the adver-
tisements: "If you want the finest teas and
coffees go John Smiths for them" The
reader will readily see that the word to- has
been omitted. We would then tell you the
word omitted this week begins with a T and
ends with an o.. This is the cue simply how
to find the word.
You will then begin to start in at the top
or bottom and read every advertisement on
the page to find out where this missing word
belongs. After you have found the word you
will find a blank on the page marked contest
l, then you proceed to fill this out carefully.
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not to fill this blank out until every member
of the family have gone carefully over the
page, and if each member of the family
arrives at the same conclusion as to the same
word then you may depend on it, you have
the right one. So don't fill out either blank
until this has been done. You see you have
but one chance a week on each page, as the
return blanks are dated. You are given,
according to the rules, full six days in which
to find the word and get in your answer
The word this week on each page has been
made very easy so as to get you all started
right. Read the rules governing the contest
over carefully, so that there will be no mis-
take of your getting in wrong. This is i'm
portant. The word removed will not be a
superfuous word, but one absolutely needed
to make a correct sentence when properly
placed, and will make the sentence absolutely
wrong when omitted. Now remember there
is but one word left out of one advertisement
on each page that spoils the sentence.
Another word will be omitted next week,
and by the way, it may be omitted from the
same advertisement more than once, so you
had better be on your guard and read every
word in every advertisement each time, or
you may miss it.
Now the same conditions apply on contest
two $50 marked), with the exception that the
word omitted from the page is a different
word, and today this word, as we have said
above, starts with an R and ends with R.
So you see you have two different words, one
from each page. Always be sure to look at
the rules each week. 1t will tell you what
the words missing begin and end with. That
is, the letters of the word.
The Pleasantville Press will give away to
the persons who find all or the most of the
words at the end of II weeks $4,000 in gold,
for contest marked 1, and $40. 90 in gold will
be awarded to the contest marked 2. The
awards for each page are sub-divided as fol-
lows: To the person finding all or the most
of the twelve words Zone for each week.
$4,000 in gold will be awarded and to the