100,000 PRESENTS 
In order to secure 100,000 subscribers, any person who sends as directed, gets a present 
worth from 20 cents to $500. The proprietors of CITY AJfD COUNTRY, the Leading Il¬ 
lustrated Literary and Agricultural Journal of the Middle States, have determined to use a 
portion of their capital for the purpose of increasing their circulation, already large, to 100,- 
OOO copies, and have adopted the follo wing plan: 
FOR FIFTY CENTS 
We will place your name on our subscription books and mail this paper regularly to you Six 
Months and send a numbered receipt, which will entitle the holder to one of the fol¬ 
lowing presents: 
LIST OF PRESENTS TO BE GIVEN AWAY. 
10 U. S. Greenbacks of $500 .$5 000 
10 U. S. Greenoacksof $i00 . 1,000 
10 Residence Lois in Columbus of $500 
each.5,000 
1 Nickel Plattd Columbia Bicycle . 150 
1 t’abinet Grand Upright Piano . . . 890 
1 Grand Cabinet Organ. 250 
1 Three Seat Rockaway. 200 
1 Silver Dinner Service. 100 
5 Top Buggies.1,000 
20 U. S. Greenbacks of $50 each .... 1,000 
1000 Autograph Albums $2 each . . . . 2,000 
2 Village Carts. 200 
1 Pony Phaeton.$ 100 
1000 Pocket Silver Fruit Knives.1,000 
1000 Gents'Pocket Knives.1,000 
1000 U. S. Greenbacks of $1 each. . . . 1,000 
10 Gents’ Gold Watches, Eng. Mov’m’nt 800 
10ladies’ “ ** “ “ 600 
20 Boys’ Silver “ “ “ 200 
8 Solitaire Diamond Rings. 400 
3 Paten t Harvesters . . ..1,000 
2000 Elegant Art Gems.1,000 
5 Raw Silk Parlor Suit Furniture . . . 1,000 
1400 Go d Finger Rings, Ladies, Breast 
Pins, Gents’ Scarf Pins, Lockets, 
Fans and Chains, and 92,481 other presents, valued from 20cents to $1, making a grand aggre¬ 
gate of 100,000 presents, und guaranteeing a present to each and every subscriber who sends 
50 cents or $1,00. 
FOR ONE DOLLAR 
We will enter your name on our subscription books and mail City and Country regularly 
to you one year, and immediately send two numbered receipts. If any one desires four 
receipts, they will be sent for $2 00 and their subscription will be entered up for two years. 
All of the above presents will be awarded in a fair and impartial manner. Presents will be 
sent to any part of the United States or Canada. The money you send is the subscription 
price of the parser for either six or twelve months, and therefore we charge nothing for the 
present. Onr Profit will be in your future patronage and the increased rate we will get for 
our advertising space. Yonr Subscription t ree ! Get five of your friends to join you 
by cutting this out and showing it to them. Send us $5 and we will send you City and 
Country for one year and two numbered receipts for each of your subscribers and two extra 
for your trouble. Send ten subscribers, worth $10, and we will send you 12 subscriptions 
and 24 receipts. We shall limit the number of subscriptions to 100,000, and this offer will hold 
good until November 1st. Our friends should forward their names at once. 
500 Stem Winding Watches Free! 
in order to test the value of the papers in which this advertisement appears, and to positively 
secure the 100,000 subscribers required by the 1st of November, we will give away 500 Stem- 
Winding Water bury Watches to the first 500 persons who answer this advertisement by mail, 
and who send us two names forone year, with $2.00 enclosed. This will entitle the holder to 
a reliable Watch and lour receipts. 
In the December number of City and Country we will nrint in full tb a names and address¬ 
es of the winners of the 500 watches. Don’twait, butsendyour name with that of a friend, now. 
A Valuable Residence Lot in Columbus Free! 
To the person who sends us the largest number of subscribers from one locality, city, town, 
county or State, between this timeand until the award ismade, we will present them with a deed 
for an elegant residence lot in Columbus, Ohio, free from all encumbrance and valued at$500. 
This offer in no way affects the 100,000 presents offered in order to secure 100,000 subscribers. 
CITY AND COUNTRY (established in 1881,) is a 28-page Illustrated Family monthly 
for everybody, whether livingin City or Country. Ithas departments devoted to Agriculture, 
Beekeeping, Art Needle Work, Boys a id Girls, the Family Physician. Fashions, Floriculture, 
the Household, the exchanging of articles among subscribers, Knitting and Crochet, Law, 
Poultry and Veterinary Surgery. Each department is under the control of a special editor who 
will cheerfu’ly answer, without charge, all quesiionsasked by subscribers relating to their de¬ 
partment. At. ; ts > ubscription price of $1.00 i t will befound to be the best paper taken in the 
family. It is full of illustration sand valuable information. 
These Presents are given to our Subscribers absolutely free. f2-cent postage stamps taken.] 
Money in sums of $1.00 or less may be s^nt thro ugh the Mail, at our risk; large sums by Reg¬ 
istered Letter, Postal Note or express, and addressed to 
CITY AND COUNTRY, 
Converse Building, E. State St., Columbus, Oliio. 
