The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-07-30
-FOUR FINE PRIZES
Will Be AWARDED
TO THOSE who win
Votes Will Be Given at Many
Local Stores in Return for
Cash Payments
TERMS OF CONTEST LISTED
Girls in Bismarck, Mandan and
City's Trade Area Are Eli
gible to Compete
TERMS OF CONTEST LISTED

Decision to offer four free trips to
girls of Bismarck and vicinity was
reached Saturday by The Tribune
and cooperating Bismarck merchants
in connection with popularity cam
paign to be begun in this city next
Wednesday.
Votes will be given in return for
cash purchases or cash payments on
account at the various stores CO.
operating in the enterprise and the
contest will last six weeks.
It will offer opportunity for in
genuity and enterprise on the part of
the young women contestants and at
the close there will be delightful
trip to Miami, Florida, by rail and
BOAT, for the grand prize winner.
In addition, there will be separate
prize for the individual winners in
the y of Bismarck. the city of
Mandsn, and in the Bismarck trade
territory outside of the two cities.
Not more than one prize will be
awarded to any contest winner
The winners will travel in luxury.
will be especially entertained at many
places. and all of their expenses will
be paid.
The age limit for contestants Is
from II to 80 and any girl living in
Bismarck, Mandan, or the adjacent
territory is eligible to compete.
All a girl has to do TO win Is to
Induce her friends to make purchases
or pay accounts at the stores OF mer-
chants who have joined with The
Tribune to sponsor this contest, get
the votes which they will issue and
cast them for her.
Ballot boxes will be located at The
Tribune office. Lucas, Penney and
MONTGOMERY Ward stores and the
ballots will be collected and counted
daily. Announcement of the stand
ings of the various contestants will
be made in The Tribune each day
during the contest.
Should Enter at Once
The opening of the contest Is
scheduled for next Thursday in order
to give young women in this area OPP
portunity to enter their names. line
up their friends to vote for them, and
get a flying start in this contest
which offers four fine prizes for re-
latively little work.
The list of cooperating merchants
is printed in this issue of The Trib-
une. Examine it III order that you
may know who is giving votes in tbs
contest.
The votes will be given in units of
100 for each dollar of merchandise
purchased or paid for. There will be
no splitting of this unit. that is the
purchaser of so or IS cents worth of
goods will receive no ballots, and the
purchaser of say. $3.e1 cents worth
will receive 300 votes. This is done
to make it easier to count the ballots
and in the belief that it Is fair to
every contestant.
Residents of Bismarck, Mandan
and the trade area are asked to
nominate popular and active young
women .or this contest. It has pro-
vided a maximum of fun and inter-
est in other communities in which it
has been staged and has proved Inn
mensely popular in this part of the
country.
The girl who enters has nothing to
lose and one of four fine vacation
trips, with all expenses paid. to gain.
If paid for by the winners. these trips
would cost hundreds of dollars. They
are free to the popular girls who dis
play the will to win.
Chaperones will be provided for the
winners of all trips and the details
of the Journeys will be handled by a
travel agency which has made a
science of this activity.
Here's Fun, Thrills
The itinerary of the grand prize
trip to Miami hints at the thrills, fun
and excitement which the grand prize
winner will enjoy. It provides for q
trip from Bismarck to ST. Paul. where
the girl will join other prize winners
from the Northwest, and thence by
rail to Chicago. After a brief stop
there the party will proceed on one
OF the worlds best railroad trains to
washington, where another stop will
be made, and thence to Baltimore.
At Baltimore they will board a
palatial liner which will take them
on cruise Of two and one-half DAYS
to Miami, with a stop at Jacksonville.
Fla. Then two days in Miami stop
ping at one Of the worlds finest ho-
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