Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1934-06-01
Sears, ROebUck Company
To Sponsor Baby Contest
500 Pictures WIN Be Entered From
Delaware; $4,000 First Prize

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Delaware will have an oppOrtun
ity to participate in a nationwide
effort to find Americas most beau
/ tiful baby.
This biggest of the 1884 Century
/ of Progress competitions will award
to the baby winning first prize $5,-
900 in cash and $4,000 r. E. Wood
College Educational Policy.
In addition there will be 1895
other prizes awarded with values
graduated downward from the sec
ond prize of $4,OOO-$1, 900 in cash
and a $4,000 R. E. Wood College Ed
vocational Policy.
This announcement was issued
today by l.. NJ. Mckay, manager OF
the Dover store of Sears, Roebuck
and Company, which is sponsoring
the contest. Pictures from this city
and the surrounding country may
be turned in at the Sears store, Do
yer, where they will be entered in
the State contest. Five hundred and
six pictures from this State will be
sent to Chicago to compete for the
nation prizes.
A photograph of the first prize
winner from each State will be
placed on display in the. Sears build
ing at a Century of Progress and
visitors at the big exposition will
vote on them. These pictures will
be enlarged and colored and will
comprise one of the most interest
ing exhibits at the fair. Neither the
name of the baby or the state from
which the picture is entered will
appear on the picture and voting by
fair visitors will be done by num-
Der.
The national prizes are as fol-
lows:
First national prize: $1O,0OO-$5,-
900 in cash and $4,000 in an r. E.
Wood College Educational Policy.
Second national prize: $4,000
81 900 in cash and $4,000 in an R. E.
Wood College Educational Policy.
Third national prize; $500
$500 in cash and $4,000 in an R. E.
Wood College Education Policy.
Fourth national prize: $500 in
cash.
Fifth national prize 5000 in cash !
Sixth to tenth national prizes:
Each 500 in cash,
Five thousand first national hon !
orable mention awards; natural col
or reproductions of the pictures |
winning these awards, size 8 10 !
inches, in handsome silver frames (
engraved.
Ten thousand second national
honorable mention awards: TrO-
Dhies in the form of silver baby
cups engraved with the baby's name
and mention of the award.
Folders outlining all the rules and
of the contest may be
mad by applying at the Dover Sears
store. Manager Mckay said. He en-
Dhasized the facts that all pictures
must be left at the retail store by
he closing hour of June 80, 1884, or
snet by first class mail by midnight
Of the same date, that the pictures
may be of any size or finish and
that snapshots. will be as acceptable
as the most expensive studio pOr-
trait
Briefly the rules state:
That the contest is open to all
and guardians of living ba-
lies under five years of age living
n the United States except the ba-
lies of contest judges or Sears EN-
,loyees; that each contestant must
upply on the back of the picture
about the baby's pres
mt age, date of birth. height.
weight, coloring of hair. eyes, com
lexion and clothes, the name OF the
ontestant submitting the picture
nd the contestants relation TO the
ably; that beauty of features, APP
cal of personality as shown by the
icture apd propOrtionate weight
nd height will be the bases of
Judgment in selecting winners and
hat the pictures in the contest will
OF be returned.