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HOME AND FLOWERS 



Twenty-Five Free 



Lasting: Forty Days, 

 AND OYER ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS 



N THIS advertisement we publish nine rebus pictures, each spelling the name of a <5ity located in the 

 United States. Can you name them correctly? If you can, till in the slip and send it to us, together 

 with a short, twenty word article on the City No 1 named after a famous generaL We will give a First 

 Prize of Five Hundred Dollars in Cash to the person whose list is correct, and vyhose article is best in 



the estimation of 

 NAMES OF CITIES the Committee. For 

 the next best answer, 

 Two Hundred and 

 Fifty Dollars in Cash; 

 for the next best an- 

 swer. One Hundred 

 and Filty Dollars in 

 — — — ^— ^— — — Cash; for the next 

 best answer, One 

 Hundred Dollars in 

 Cash; for the ten 

 next best answers, 

 Twenty-five Dollars 



each; for the twenty 



next best answers. 

 Fifteen Dollars each; 

 for th e forty next best 

 answers. Ten Dollars 

 each; for the fifty 



next best answers, 



— — — — — — Five Dollars each; 



and everyone nam- 

 ing three or more ot 

 these cities correctly 

 will receive a cash 

 prize of One Dollar, 



Some one is going 



to win the money, 

 and it may be you; 

 anyway, it does not 

 cost you any money 

 to try. There is only 

 one easy condition, 



— — — ^ — ^ — which will take 



about one hour of 

 your time, and which 

 we will write you as 

 soon as your answer 

 is received. This 

 ____________^^^__ rebus is not as easy 



as it appears, and it 

 will take agreatdeal 

 of briiin work to solve 

 the nine cities cor- 

 rectly. The envelope 

 containing the cor- 



— — — — — rect answer has been 



sealed and deposited 

 with a leading safe 

 deposit company of 

 Boston, and will not 



"^^"P " - '"^mX t>e opened until after 



fFlfllhr m,,'Kv\ I the close of the con- 



test. This, we be- 

 lieve, is the only hon- 

 est way of conduct- 

 ing a contest, as 

 everyone will have 



^ an equal chance. In 



the event of a tie, we 

 will request five per- 

 sons who have answered our advertisement to act as a committee to award the cash pro-rata. They will 

 be invited to come to Boston at our expense and be our guests while in this city. We take this original 

 method of ours of selecting a committee to show our good faith, as we want to treat all in the fairest ma«- 

 ner possible. The Committee will be selected, solely upon their merits, from among our contestants, and. 



Contest Department, The Brown Book, 



